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Haunting and inspirational, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz memorializes the powerful and little-known tale of 23 seamstresses imprisoned at Auschwitz and the way they interacted with others in the camp: prisoners and Nazis alike.

On a Fulbright Fellowship in Lithuania in 2010, Toronto native Menachem Kaiser traveled to Poland and there, in the village of Sosnowiec, he was inspired to take up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building.

The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (JHC) at New England Historic Genealogical Society preserves the histories of Jewish families and institutions in New England and beyond.