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Title Compass: Rags to Riches
Published Australia : ABC, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 min. 38 sec.) ; 167201184 bytes
Summary A story of survival and success: Jewish families who lost everything in WW2 and rebuilt their lives from scratch here in Australia. Compass features three families who combined their fashion skills with a fierce to determination to survive. The Weinreichs established a multi-million dollar bridal gown business. Cobbler brothers Morris and Adam Perkal, now in their 90s, are still making shoes for the rich, famous and physically disabled. And, Anna Reich, a Schindler's list survivor, is a retired fashionista
Event Broadcast 2013-04-14 at 18:30:00
Notes Classification: PG
Subject Fashion merchandising -- Management.
Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Jewish families -- Conduct of life.
Shoemakers.
Wedding costume.
Australia.
Form Streaming video
Author Doogue, Geraldine, host
Perkal, Adam, contributor
Perkal, Morris, contributor
Reich, Anna, contributor
Roth, Henry, contributor
Weinreich, Aneta, contributor
Weinreich, Joseph, contributor