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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-25 - Publisher: Springer

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This book explores how the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau has been remembered in both media and popular culture since the end of the Second World War
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Pages: 505
Authors: Michael Haas
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DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front
Playing for Time
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Authors: Fania Fénelon
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-09-01 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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In 1943, Fania Fénelon was a Paris cabaret singer, a secret member of the Resistance, and a Jew. Captured by the Nazis, she was sent to Auschwitz, and later, B
Alma Rose
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Presents the story of a woman who saved the lives of many Jews who were members in her orchestra in Auschwitz.
Playing for Time
Language: en
Pages: 92
Authors: Arthur Miller
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: MIT Press

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The extraordinary story of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz, originally filmed for television with Vanessa Redgrave, and adapted for the stage by Miller himse