Summary of Lucy Adlington's The Dressmakers of Auschwitz

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 A group of women in white headscarves sat sewing at long wooden tables, heads bent over garments, needles in, needles out. They were sewing clothes for the wives of high-ranking men from the Auschwitz SS garrison. Men notorious for beatings, torture, and mass murder. #2 The forces that converged to create a fashion salon in Auschwitz were also responsible for shaping and fracturing the lives of the women who would eventually work there. The world is very small when we are children, yet rich with details and sensation. #3 Irene Reichenberg was born in 1922 in Bratislava, a beautiful Czechoslovakian city on the banks of the river Danube. Her birth came three years after a census that showed the city’s population was mainly an ethnic mix of Germans, Slovaks, and Hungarians. #4 Irene’s family was very large, and she had eight siblings. Her father was a shoemaker, and her mother a housewife. They were poor, and they struggled to support their large family.