Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

TheNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Dressmakers of Auschwitztells the stories of fourJewishgirlsduring 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-eachhada red sweater that would play a major part in their lives. In this absorbing and deeply moving account, award-winningclotheshistorian Lucy Adlington documents their stories, knitting together the experiences that fragmented their families and their lives.

Adlington immortalizes theseyoung womenwhose 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 Sweatersis illustrated with more than two dozen black-and-white images throughout.