Four Red Sweaters

Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

By: Lucy Adlington

Narrated by: Esther Wane

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.

The resilience of the Jewish people in the midst of brutality, cold and starving conditions!

Giving a name and history that is pieced together from fragments of Jewish lives! Do not forget how evil people can be to each other! Mob mentality at its most horrid pinnacle!

Heart wrenching

A must read holocaust novel. Told from the perspective of the knitters who perished and those who survived.

An intricately woven story......

Haunting and disturbing, but very powerful. I've been to Berlin and read the stories on the remaining pieces of the Berlin wall, watched documentaries, seen Anne Frank's home, but this book brought a daunting reality to what happened during the holocaust on a personal level. The reason for the 4 stars was I felt I almost needed a storyboard to keep track of everyone, except the main characters, mostly because of their foreign polyonymous names. Since I mostly listened to this book in my car, having other distractions, that could be the reason. This book is a must read!!!!

Disjointed

I didn't like how the author kept jumping from one story line to another. Yes, the red sweaters were a theme, but I felt that the book didn't flow well. I regretted using a credit on it.

Actual facts and history

Very compelling, an important history. Just a bit repetitive. Should be required reading in schools.