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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 H?ss, the camp commandant's wife, and patronized by the...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 A group of women in white headscarves sat sewing at long wooden tables, heads bent over garments, needles in, needles out. They were sewing clothes for the wives of high-ranking men from the Auschwitz SS garrison. Men notorious for beatings, torture, and mass murder.
#2 The forces that converged to create a fashion salon in Auschwitz were also responsible for shaping...
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“Schindler's List” meets “The Sound of Music” as best-selling New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II history to recover the amazing story of two British spinsters who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of Jewish stars and personnel of the German and Austrian opera to England and save them from a terrible fate under the Third Reich. Will resonate with readers of “The Nazi Officer's Wife” and...
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