The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

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Tengo que empezar diciendo que esta historia está MUY documentada, pero MUY. El trabajo que hay detrás es impresionante al punto que te vuela la cabeza 🤯 Desde aquí mis felicitaciones a la autora por semejante trabajazo esto no se escribe un par de meses… Her niece sent me the suit. So I have a suit made by one of the dressmakers, and it makes me cry whenever I see it. It's so beautiful to think of what she had to do in the camps to survive — this womannamed Hunya," saidAdlington, who reiteratedthat their work was essentially slave labor. That was an amazing connection," she said. "And I'm looking at her thinking, this is the same woman whose experiences I've been reading about.Here she is.I'm trying to understand how she, at such a young age, could endure that trauma." Lucy Adlington (left) with 98-year-old Bracha Kohut, a surviving Auschwitz dressmaker Image: Lucy Adlington The dressmakers' underground resistance The main focus of the book is Bracha Kohut who died in 2021 in California (west coast of the United States). She was about 100 years old when she died. Bracha was interviewed extensively by Ms. Adlington and opened many doors for the latter’s research. Bracha was probably the last surviving seamstress of the Upper Tailoring Studio set up in the concentration camp of Auschwitz and its sister extermination camp of Birkenau. Bracha was from the area of Slovakia around Bratislava as were several others. A couple of the women were French Communists and not Jewish.

Adlington set out to look for clues to find out more about the former dressmakers. In the process, she discovered inspiring stories of resistance and survival. The author and historian's findings are now being published in a new book titled "The Dressmakers of Auschwitz,"out on September 28. The 'Upper Tailoring Studio' For many prisoners, workingat the tailoring studio was a way to survive.The head seamstress wasa womannamedMartawho deliberately created the fashion salon as a haven. She wanted to save as many women as she could. So yes, they had clean clothes. They had the opportunity to wash. And as one woman said, they hadmeaningful work," saidAdlington. Las modistas de Auschwitz, nos muestra esta terrible época desde un ámbito diferente, la costura, esto me ha parecido muy interesante. Lo que más me gusta de leer sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial es la cantidad de cosas que se aprenden. ¿Sabéis lo que hacían con las toneladas de pelo que quitaban a los prisioneros? ¿Conocéis “Cánada” el gran mercado negr The second half of Kohút’s 1,000 days in Auschwitz was shaped by Hedwig Hoess, the wife of camp commandant Rudolph Hoess, who asked her husband for a prisoner to help tend the children and sew.El desastre que tuvo lugar allí es imposible de comprender, y la mente humana no es capaz de creerlo […]». Not only will the reader learn about these heroic women but will acquire knowledge about the history of Europe from 1920 to 1950. The author presents the development of fashion during the prewar and wartime years. Among the disturbing things I learned was that the fashion designer Hugo Boss used slave labor to produce his products for the better part of a decade. The horrific “Kristallnacht” is another event covered by this book. I learned about “Arisators” who were Aryan managers allowed to take over Jewish owned businesses for little or no cost. a b c Clarke, Norma (12 February 2016). "Hobble and hose". TLS. Times Literary Supplement (5889): 34–35. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023 . Retrieved 1 February 2023.

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The dressmakers' underground resistance

I didn't have enough information, so I imagined what would it be like to be a young woman sewing in Auschwitz for the commandant's wife," the author recounted."And when this novel came out, people started getting in touch with me to say, 'Well, actually, that was my aunt, that was my mother, that was my grandmother.'"