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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eischeid, Susan J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Series:Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
Fénelon, Fania.
Fénelon, Fania. > Sursis pour l'orchestre. > English.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Sources.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Concentration camp inmates > France > Biography.
Jews > France > Biography.
Musicians > France > Biography.

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