Stitched & Sewn bookcover

Stitched & Sewn

The Life-Saving Art of Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel

Jody Savin 

(Author)

Ann Elliott Cutting 

(Photographer)

Michael Berenbaum 

(Foreword by)
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Description

The richly illustrated story of a woman who, late in life, copes with the buried trauma of her childhood as a Holocaust survivor by becoming a master needlework artist like her mother, who saved both their lives in the camps with her seamstress skills.

Product Details

PublisherProspect Park Books
Publish DateApril 07, 2020
Pages194
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9781945551765
Dimensions8.6 X 8.7 X 0.7 inches | 1.8 pounds

About the Author

Jody Savin is a graduate of Princeton University and the American Film Institute, where she earned her MFA. Following college, she worked as a playwright and poet while supporting herself as musical director for such soap operas as The Guiding Light and As the World Turns, winning three Daytime Emmy nominations. Her poetry has been published in dozens of literary magazines. As a screenwriter, Savin wrote the award-winning TNT documentary Chico Mendes: Voice of the Amazon, and she wrote, produced, and distributed the independent films Bottle Shock, Nobel Son, and CBGB. She has also written and produced feature films for Disney, Universal, Columbia, and 20th Century Fox. She lives in Pasadena, California.
Ann Elliott Cutting is a professional photographer based in Pasadena, California. She's on the photography faculty of Art Center College of Design, is a ceramicist, and, to really round things out, is also a molecular biologist who has worked at Caltech.
Michael Berenbaum is the author of eighteen books, including After Tragedy and Triumph. He was a co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a co-producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary One Survivor Remembers. He is the director of the Sigi Ziering Institute at the American Jewish University.

Reviews

"A work of beauty: breathtaking tapestries, combined with a sensitive, poignant narrative of how art prevailed over suffering in the life and work of one survivor. Stitched & Sewn is medicine for one's eyes and heart."
- David Fishman, author of The Book Smugglers and professor of history at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

"Stitched & Sewn is a testament to the profound power of the human experience; the ability to endure the worst atrocities and then create meaning and indelible beauty is a buoying, wondrous thing. That three artists from different media-writer Jody Savin, photographer Ann Elliott Cutting, and tapestry artist Trudie Strobel-came together to realize this book reminds us that all of our life's work, including that of survival, is autobiography. You won't soon forget the stories captured here, in words and images."
- Alison Singh Gee, author of Where the Peacocks Sing

"Stitched & Sewn is a cautionary tale of what happens when a society loses its humanity. Trudie Strobel's story reveals the emotional carnage of surviving the Holocaust and the cost of silence, and it's a testament to the healing properties of art and documenting impossible pain. Strobel literally stitches together tapestries of memory and Jewish life, and in doing so implores us to face the ugliest chapters of history, and to never forget them."
- Michelle Brafman, author of Washing the Dead and Bertrand Court

"When there are no words, art is the storyteller, each stitch a story. Stitched & Sewn is an incredibly beautiful, haunting journey, showing the power of art to integrate us and cultivate healing."
- Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, LCSW, co-author of The Whole-Brain Child and The Power of Showing Up, and the author of Bottom Line for Baby

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