The Nazi 'fashion house' where Jews were forced to make clothes for the rich...
using fabric looted from murdered Holocaust victims By ED WIGHT IN POLAND and HARRY HOWARD, HISTORY EDITOR Published: 20:30 EDT, 15 April 2025 | Updated: 20:31 EDT, 15 April 2025 e-mail View comments At first glance, it looks much like any mid-20th century factory scene. Women seated at tables, hard at work making clothes. But it is their shell-shocked expressions that are the giveaway - signs that they are unwilling participants in one of the lesser-known horrors of the Second World War .
As a new exhibition highlights, it was amidst the death and disease of the Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland that Jewish men, women and children were forced to make clothes and luxury goods for the Nazi regime and Third Reich civilians. These luxury items included dresses, underwear, hats, footwear and ties made from materials taken from Jews murdered in the nearby Kulmhof am Nehr extermination camp just 30 miles away. Other chilling photos show displays of children's clothes and ladies dresses; a well-dressed man inspecting ties while standing next to a Jew with the Star of David pinned to his jacket; and a 'look book' for a man's suit and a women's jumper.
Yet others show Nazi uniforms and insignia and a pile of clothes from the extermination camp strewn across a street in the ghetto. Taken for propaganda purposes by Walter Genewein, the Nazis' chief accountant in the Lodz ghetto, the photos reveal a hideous expl.
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