Four Red Sweaters

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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 otherin fact had never meteach 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.

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"Novelistic and wrenching, this serves as a poignant testament to the unconquerability of the human spirit." Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"[An] engrossing account . . . . tracking wartime horrors, and resilience, through cherished garments." Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Lucy Adlington is a British novelist and clothes historian with more than twenty years experience researching social history and writing fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Yorkshire, England.