Stitched & Sewn: The Life-Saving Art of Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel - Hardcover
Stitched & Sewn: The Life-Saving Art of Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel - Hardcover
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by Jody Savin (Author), Ann Elliott Cutting (Photographer), Michael Berenbaum (Foreword by)
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.
Author Biography
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.
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