The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Quotes

“It is fascinating to note how clothing so often played a role in resistance, as life-saving warmth, a heart-warming gift, a hiding place or a disguise.”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“The undressing process in Auschwitz not only stripped identity as clothes came off, it also stripped away dignity.”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que contaba era la amistad y la lealtad. Recuperar las posesiones no tenía tanto que ver con volver a poseerlas como con restablecer cierta vida de hogar tras la realidad distorsionada de los campos de concentración.”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que contaba era la amistad y la lealtad. Recuperar las posesiones no tenía tanto que ver con volver a poseerlas como con restablecer cierta vida de hogar tras la realidad distorsionada de los campos de concentración.”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“The outside world now had proof of industrial-scale murder. Whether the world would or could act on the knowledge remained to be seen. Allied response to the reports was inadequate, on the whole. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill conceded that the persecution of Jews in Hungary ‘is probably the biggest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world.’33”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“antisemitism had by no means abated.”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“is rare that survivors feel at ease enough to admit that they themselves were the ones who were raped.”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“Malchow, one of Ravensbrück’s satellites, a camp of well-organised scarcity and orderly starvation”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“male-centric”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“without a bra,”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“would not all blow over.”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“Bread was made at home;”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“playing tig,”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“Chazak ve Amatz,’ she wrote – Be strong and of good will.”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“I did not want to live anymore – Irene Reichenberg”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“Life was nearly impossible, but the worst was still to come – Renée Ungar46”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“A woman must be slender and willowy, though not devoid of curves and roundness of figure – Eva magazine, September 1940”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“The festive atmosphere of market day drives away gloom and sadness – Ladislav Grosman, The Shop on Main Street”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“At the birth of their next child, Hans-Jürgen, Hedwig specifically requested a caesarean operation, so that a lengthy labour would not interfere with plans to hear Hitler’s big May Day speech in Berlin.16”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“We had the moral right, we had the duty towards our people to destroy the people that wanted to destroy us. But we do not have the right to enrich ourselves”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

“SS auxiliary Irma Grese”
― Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive