The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive Black & African American LiteratureA powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. 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.
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she’s desperate when she finds a too-good-to-be-true apartment in a beautiful Chicago neighborhood
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