"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"--Title page verso.

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

"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.