Broken threads : the destruction of the Jewish fashion industry in Germany and Austria
By: edited by Roberta S. Kremer.
Contributors: Kremer, Roberta S., 1946-; Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.; Original Costume Museum Society of Vancouver.
Publisher: Berg; Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York; Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781845206604
Subjects: Fashion design -- Germany -- Exhibitions; Fashion designers -- Germany -- Exhibitions; Fashion design -- Austria -- Exhibitions; Fashion designers -- Austria -- Exhibitions; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Economic aspects -- Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Economic aspects -- Austria; World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Germany; World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Austria
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: "Broken Threads tells the story of the destruction of the Jewish fashion industry under the Nazis. Broken Threads chronicles this moment of cultural loss, detailing the rise of Jewish design and its destruction at the hands of the Nazis. Illustrated with photographs and fashion plates from the collection of Claus Jahnke, Broken Threads explores this little-known part of fashion and of Nazi history."--Jacket.
Notes: "This publication grew out of the groundbreaking exhibition Broken threads: the destruction of the Jewish fashion industry in Germany and Austria produced by the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre in partnership with the Original Costume Museum Society of Vancouver in 1999"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Holocaust and cultural loss / Roberta S. Kremer; title: From rags to riches: Jews as producers and purveyors of fashion / Christopher R. Friedrichs; title: Architecture of the German department store / Christian Schramm; title: Contributions of Jewish fashion designers in Berlin / Ingrid Loschek; title: The destruction of a culture and an industry / Irene Guenther; title: Fashion disappears from Germany / Charlotte Schallié; title: Ridding Vienna's fashion and textile industry of Jews during the Nazi period / Gloria Sultano.