Helpful Score: 2
the amazing tale of a talented dressmaker who apprears to be gentile
and but ends up in a concentration camp and survives.
and but ends up in a concentration camp and survives.
Helpful Score: 1
I enjoyed this book and am amazed at the courage.
Helpful Score: 1
The Seamstress was written by a woman who survived the horrors of a concentration camp named Ravensbruck. There were more than 85,000 women held there; only one in 20 made it out. Yet the tone of the book is matter-of-fact. It is not a siren of drama at it could be. This makes it tolerable to read, as one imagines the conditions people were forced to endure. A deeply moving story, at the same time sad yet also triumphant in that she did, indeed, survive it all, using her intelligence, her wit and her incredible inner strength. She brought her sister and a close friend through it all with her, and lived to raise a family of her own. D.
