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The women's orchestra of Auschwitz : a story of survival
Sebba, Anne2026
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In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. While still living amid the most brutal and dehumanising of circumstances, they were also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers, and individual members were sometimes summoned to give solo performances of an officer's favourite piece of music. What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it feel to be forced to provide solace to the perpetrators of a genocide that claimed the lives of their family and friends? Award-winning historian Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care.
Main title:
The women's orchestra of Auschwitz : a story of survival / Anne Sebba.
Author:
Sebba, Anne, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2026.
Collation:
390 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2025.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781399610759 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.531853862940.531853940.531853 SEB940.531 SEB
Language:
English
Subject:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)Nazi concentration camp inmates as musicians -- Poland -- OświęcimWomen Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- OświęcimWarfare and DefenceNazi concentration camp inmates as musicians -- Poland -- OswiecimWomen Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- OswiecimEuropean historyThe HolocaustTheory of music & musicologySecond World WarSocial groups: religious groups & communities
BRN:
4245162