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03004aim a2200433Ki 4500 001 CFA6C7D2A1FE11ED9BB60AE923ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230201010120 007 sd fsngnnmmned 008 210915s2021 nyunnnne h n eng d 020 $a 9798200741861 020 $a 9798200741854 040 $a BLACP $b eng $e rda $c BLACP $d OCLCO $d HEV $d SILO 082 04 $a 940.531853862 $2 23 100 1 $a Adlington, Lucy, $d 1970- $e narrator. $e narrator. 245 14 $a The dressmakers of Auschwitz : $b the true story of the women who sewed to survive / $c Lucy Adlington. 246 30 $a True story of the women who sewed to survive. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a [New York] : $b HarperCollins, $c [2021] 300 $a 10 audio discs (12 hr.) : $b CD audio, digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 306 $a 120000. 500 $a Title from disc label. 500 $a Compact discs. 511 0 $a Read by the author. 505 0 $a Introduction -- One of the few who survived -- The one and only power -- What next, how to continue? -- The yellow star -- The customary reception -- You want to stay alive -- I want to live here till I die -- Out of ten thousand women -- Solidarity and support -- The air smells like burning paper -- They want us to be normal? 520 $a "At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp-mainly Jewish women and girls-were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop-called the Upper Tailoring Studio-was established by Hedwig Hs̲s, the camp commandant's wife, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers. Here, the dressmakers produced high-quality garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz, and for ladies from Nazi Berlin's upper crust. Drawing on diverse sources-including interviews with the last surviving seamstress-The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution, but also to play their part in camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers' remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation, historian Lucy Adlington exposes the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich." --back cover. 610 20 $a Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 650 0 $a Nazi concentration camp inmates $z Poland $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Concentration camps $z Poland. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $z Poland. 650 0 $a Jewish women in the Holocaust. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Conscript labor $z Poland. 650 0 $a Dressmakers $z Poland $v Biography. 650 0 $a Audiobooks. 941 $a 2 945 $a cdab 952 $l WAPD715 $d 20240201010400.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201022717.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CFA6C7D2A1FE11ED9BB60AE923ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search