The Red Ribbon
As 14-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She is a dressmaker, but this is no ordinary sewing workshop. Hers are no ordinary clients. Ella has joined the seamstresses of Birkenau-Auschwitz, as readers may recognise it...
| Main Author: | Adlington, Lucy, 1970- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Somerville, Mass. :
Candlewick Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: |
As 14-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She is a dressmaker, but this is no ordinary sewing workshop. Hers are no ordinary clients. Ella has joined the seamstresses of Birkenau-Auschwitz, as readers may recognise it. Every dress she makes could mean the difference between life and death. And this place is all about survival. Ella seeks refuge from this reality, and from haunting memories, in her work and in the world of fashion and fabrics. She is faced with painful decisions about how far she is prepared to go to survive. Is her love of clothes and creativity nothing more than collaboration with her captors, or is it a means of staying alive? |
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| Item Description: |
Originally published in 2017. |
| Physical Description: |
271 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781536201048 1536201049 |
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