Four red sweaters : powerful true stories of women and the Holocaust / Lucy Adlington.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063375130
- ISBN: 0063375133
- ISBN: 9780063375161
- ISBN: 0063375168
- Physical Description: 326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-318) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Jewish women in the Holocaust. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
| Genre: | Biographies. Informational works. Illustrated works. |
Available copies
- 16 of 40 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 0 of 3 copies available at Rockingham County Public Library.
Holds
- 8 current holds with 40 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Eden Library | ROC1826103 (Text) | ROC1826103 | Adult New Nonfiction | In process | - |
| Madison-Mayodan Public Library | ROC1826103 (Text) | ROC1826105 | Adult New Nonfiction | In process | - |
| Reidsville Library | ROC1826103 (Text) | ROC1826104 | Adult New Nonfiction | In process | - |
