Stitches in the Barbed Light: Survivors, Seamstresses, and Memory in Auschwitz
Marlowe Quinn Steele
Joseph W Stafford
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A compelling work of investigative history, Stitches in the Barbed Light uncovers the astonishing story of the Auschwitz ‘Upper Tailoring Studio’ and the women who stitched to survive. Marlowe Quinn Steele brings archival research, interviews and family testimony together to illuminate the lives of Jewish and resistance seamstresses forced to make garments for SS families while facing annihilation. Tender portraits of friendship, craft and defiance sit alongside hard facts about plunder, brutality and memory. This book traces the dressmakers’ prewar backgrounds, camp labor, postwar lives and the fragile artifacts that remain, offering a humane, rigorously sourced account that preserves voices at risk of being lost. Essential for readers interested in Holocaust history, fashion under duress, and the power of material culture to tell human stories.
A compelling work of investigative history, Stitches in the Barbed Light uncovers the astonishing story of the Auschwitz ‘Upper Tailoring Studio’ and the women who stitched to survive. Marlowe Quinn Steele brings archival research, interviews and family testimony together to illuminate the lives ...
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Marlowe Quinn Steele is the author of Stitches in the Barbed Light, a work of investigative history about the Auschwitz dressmaking salon and its seamstresses. This book combines archival research, interviews and material culture study to document the survivors’ experiences and preserve their testimonies within the Holocaust genre.
Marlowe Quinn Steele is the author of Stitches in the Barbed Light, a work of investigative history about the Auschwitz dressmaking salon and its seamstresses. This book combines archival research, interviews and material culture study to document the survivors’ experiences and preserve their tes...
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