Les modistes d'Auschwitz

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the story of the twenty-five women and adolescents, most of them Jewish, who in the midst of the absolute horror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp were selected to make custom-made clothes for the ladies of Nazi high society. His skills became his only hope of saving himself from certain death in the gas chambers. Drawing on impressive research, including interviews with the last surviving seamstress, novelist and historian Lucy Adlington offers a detailed and invaluable reconstruction of the bond of friendship between these brave women and their role in the camp's resistance, while which exposes the greed, cruelty and hypocrisy of the Third Reich. This book offers a new look at a little-known chapter of World War II and the Holocaust and brings to light stories of exceptional lives that must be told before it is too late.