Survivor Story: Hands Like an Angel

“Our mother, said to have ‘hands like an angel,’ attended the Vienna Fashion Institute, and passed on her sewing skills to my sisters and me. It saved our lives. We became seamstresses in the camp, pulling threads from the confiscated clothes of dead prisoners to reuse in uniforms.” Read about two Holocaust survivors, German Jewish newlyweds sent to America by their parents to have children to “save our people,” in One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Prisoners’ discarded clothing outside the Dachau crematorium
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter

Author: annsepstein@att.net

Ann S. Epstein is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays.

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