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010 a| 2024025647;

019 a| 1483087756;

020 a| 9780063375130;

020 a| 0063375133q| trade paperback;

020 a| 9780063375161q| hardcover;

020 a| 0063375168q| hardcover;

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050 00 a| D805.5.A96b| A425 2025;

082 00 a| 940.53/18092522| 23/eng/20250111;

100 1 a| Adlington, Lucy,d| 1970-e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwvxkGjJMYH3Y4q6CQRBq=| ^A630483;

245 10 a| Four red sweaters :b| powerful true stories of women and the Holocaust /c| Lucy Adlington.;

246 30 a| Powerful true stories of women and the Holocaust;

250 a| First edition.;

264 1 a| New York :b| Harper,c| [2025];

300 a| 326 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 21 cm;

336 a| textb| txt2| rdacontent;

336 a| still imageb| sti2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediatedb| n2| rdamedia;

338 a| volumeb| nc2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318) and index.;

505 0 a| Introducing four girls -- Part one: Salvaged. End of the old, beginning of the new -- Winter can get grim -- When you hear your name, please come forward -- We do not know where it will end -- Weather the storm -- What is going to happen to us next? -- Part two: Unravelled. Dressed in as many layers as possible -- What lovely things we made in the ghetto -- Nobody must know -- Who can knit? -- An irresistible urge to flee -- I feel good that I fought -- Part three: Remnants. The train seemed to have no end -- In Auschwitz they stripped us of everything -- Battling for survival by sheer instinct -- We had learned to be resourceful -- Memories become your possessions -- So many missing things -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on sources -- Bibliography and online sources -- Index.;

520 a| "The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways. Jock 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. Adlington 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 and original work illuminates moments long lost to history, now pieced back together by a simple garment. Four Red Sweaters is illustrated with more than two dozen black-and-white images throughout"--c| Provided by publisher.;

610 20 a| Auschwitz (Concentration camp)=| ^A391760;

610 20 a| Birkenau (Concentration camp)=| ^A418879;

650 0 a| Jewish women in the Holocaust.=| ^A399418;

650 0 a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)=| ^A49219;

650 7 a| HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust.2| bisacsh;

650 7 a| HISTORY / Jewish.2| bisacsh;

650 7 a| BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish.2| bisacsh;

655 0 a| Biography.=| ^A2154;

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Four red sweaters : powerful true stories of women and the Holocaust / Lucy Adlington.

Author/creator	Adlington, Lucy, 1970- author.
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication	New York : Harper, [2025]
Description	326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Subjects	Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Jewish women in the Holocaust. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Portion of title	Powerful true stories of women and the Holocaust
Contents	Introducing four girls -- Part one: Salvaged. End of the old, beginning of the new -- Winter can get grim -- When you hear your name, please come forward -- We do not know where it will end -- Weather the storm -- What is going to happen to us next? -- Part two: Unravelled. Dressed in as many layers as possible -- What lovely things we made in the ghetto -- Nobody must know -- Who can knit? -- An irresistible urge to flee -- I feel good that I fought -- Part three: Remnants. The train seemed to have no end -- In Auschwitz they stripped us of everything -- Battling for survival by sheer instinct -- We had learned to be resourceful -- Memories become your possessions -- So many missing things -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on sources -- Bibliography and online sources -- Index.
Abstract	"The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways. Jock 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. Adlington 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 and original work illuminates moments long lost to history, now pieced back together by a simple garment. Four Red Sweaters is illustrated with more than two dozen black-and-white images throughout"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318) and index.
Genre/form	Biography.
Genre/form	Informational works.
Genre/form	Illustrated works.
Genre/form	Biographies.
Genre/form	Biographies.
Genre/form	Documents d'information.
Genre/form	Ouvrages illustrés.
LCCN	2024025647
ISBN	9780063375130
ISBN	0063375133 trade paperback
ISBN	9780063375161 hardcover
ISBN	0063375168 hardcover
ISBN	electronic book

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