The truth about Fania Fénelon and the women's orchestra of Auschwitz-Birkenau /
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. In particular it focuses on Fania Fénelon's memoir, Playing for time (1976), which was subsequently adapted into a film. Since the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Series: | Palgrave pivot.
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| Summary: | 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. In particular it focuses on Fania Fénelon's memoir, Playing for time (1976), which was subsequently adapted into a film. Since then the publication has become a cornerstone of Holocaust remembrance and scholarship. Susan Eischeid therefore interrogates whether it deserves such status, and whether such material can ever be considered reliable source material for historians. Using divergent source material gathered by the author, such as interviews with the other surviving members of the orchestra, this book seeks to shed light on this period of women's history, and question how we remember the Holocaust today. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783319310374 3319310372 9783319310381 3319310380 |