{"product_id":"four-red-sweaters-powerful-true-stories-of-women-and-the-holocaust-isbn-9780063375161","title":"Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dressmakers of Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e tells the true stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments in this unforgettable work of WWII history, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other—in fact had never met—each had a red sweater that would play a major part in their lives. In this absorbing and deeply moving account, award-winning clothes historian Lucy Adlington documents their stories, knitting together the experiences that fragmented their families and their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdlington immortalizes these young women whose resilience, skills, strength, and kindness accompanied them through the darkest events in human history. A powerful reminder of the suffering they endured and a celebration of courage, love, and tenacity, this moving piece of narrative nonfiction illuminates moments long lost to history, now pieced back together by a simple garment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFour Red Sweaters\u003c\/i\u003e is illustrated with more than two dozen black-and-white images throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on meticulous research, this powerful work of Jewish history pieces together four remarkable lives that were unknowingly intertwined:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKindertransport Journey:\u003c\/b\u003e Follow Jock Heidenstein’s escape from Nazi Berlin to England, clutching a suitcase containing the red sweater that tied her to the family she was forced to leave behind.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Auschwitz Orchestra:\u003c\/b\u003e Discover how Anita Lasker, a talented cellist, survived Auschwitz by playing in the camp’s infamous women’s orchestra, a life saved by music in a place of unimaginable horror.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGhetto Resistance:\u003c\/b\u003e Witness Chana Zumerkorn’s struggle in the Lodz ghetto, where knitting became an act of survival, and gifting her own red sweater to her brother became an act of enduring love.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Sobibor Uprising:\u003c\/b\u003e Uncover the story of Regina Feldman, forced to knit for SS officers in the Sobibor extermination camp, who became one of the few to survive the camp’s daring and historic mass escape.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle.  She introduces us to a little known aspect of the period, highlighting the role of clothes in the grimmest of societies imaginable and giving an insight into the women who stayed alive by stitching.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandra Shulman, former Editor in Chief of British Vogue, on The Dressmakers of Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eThe Dressmakers of Auschwitz\u003c\/em\u003e, Lucy Adlington has unveiled not one but several long-hidden histories: the tale of a group of compassionate and audacious Jewish women who sewed for their lives; the story of clothes in the Holocaust; and the history of the fashion industry in World War II. Adlington has expertly interwoven these fascinating strands into an utterly absorbing, important and unique historical read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudy Batalion New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos, on The Dressmakers of Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fresh, moving Auschwitz survival story involving a remarkable group of women.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews on The Dressmakers of Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] engrossing account . . . . tracking wartime horrors, and resilience, through cherished garments.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Novelistic and wrenching, this serves as a poignant testament to the unconquerability of the human spirit.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890815135973,"sku":"NP9780063375161","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063375161.jpg?v=1730234162","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/four-red-sweaters-powerful-true-stories-of-women-and-the-holocaust-isbn-9780063375161","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}