Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust by Adlington, Lucy

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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 other--in fact had never met--each 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.

Four Red Sweaters is illustrated with more than two dozen black-and-white images throughout.

Author: Lucy Adlington
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 03/18/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780063375130

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2024 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 01/20/2025
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2025
Booklist 03/01/2025 pg. 36