The Scarlet Ribbon is the best youth novel about the Holocaust I have ever read.Robert Eaglestone, Professor at the Holocaust Institute at the University of London.Four different girls were destined to meet at the border of life and death, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.Ella is a purposeful, talented young dressmaker who, thanks to her skill, manages to survive in the camp. She sews magnificent outfits for those who doom hundreds of thousands of innocent people to death every hour. The girl found refuge from the merciless reality in the world of silk, scissors and pins. Here, a single dress can decide her fate, giving life or, conversely, taking it away.Rosa is a gentle storyteller and dreamer. The girl is always ready to share her meager portion of food with those who need it most, and is not afraid of punishment for helping other prisoners.Martha is a privileged prisoner who runs a sewing workshop. She will do anything to stay alive.Karla is one of the guards for whom the prisoners sew dresses.They will never be friends, and not everyone is destined to survive in Birkenau . One can only give hope, the symbol of which will be a scarlet ribbon once stolen from a prison studio ...