Auschwitz Birkenau Orchestra
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Auschwitz Birkenau Orchestra
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language : en
Publisher: abc.nl
Release Date : 2013-08-01
Auschwitz Birkenau Orchestra written by and has been published by abc.nl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-01 with categories.
The book contains a wealthy collection of actual quotes from the Second World War concentration camps prisoners and their approach to life at that time through music. The Orchestra consisted from three independent prisoners' orchestras that played on the territory of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Second Word War. The book represents their structure, mechanism of working and experiences of musicians.
The Truth About Fania F Nelon And The Women S Orchestra Of Auschwitz Birkenau
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Author : Susan Eischeid
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-06-25
The Truth About Fania F Nelon And The Women S Orchestra Of Auschwitz Birkenau written by Susan Eischeid and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-25 with History categories.
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 Fenelon’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 investigates 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 Pivot seeks to shed light on this period of women’s history, and questions how we remember the Holocaust today.
The Women S Orchestra Of Auschwitz
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Author : Anne Sebba
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2025-03-27
The Women S Orchestra Of Auschwitz written by Anne Sebba and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-27 with History categories.
In 1943 a women's orchestra was formed at one of the most brutal death camps ever created on the order of German SS officers. Some forty-seven or so young girls who had been sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau from various countries, played in this hotch-potch band of hurriedly assembled instruments. For almost all of them it saved their lives. Although several other camps boasted male orchestras, there was no other female orchestra in any of the camps, prisons or ghettos created by the Nazis. It lasted for little over a year and at its height reached a high level of performance largely thanks to a strict rehearsal timetable of at least ten hours a day insisted on by its conductor, the Austrian violinist, Alma Rosé. In addition to playing when the workers went out in the morning and came back into the camp at the end of the day in a bizarre attempt to keep the weary prisoners in lock step as they tried to march in time to the music, they also performed at a concert at least once every Sunday. Occasionally they were summoned by Nazi officers to give individual performances of a favourite piece of music, purely as entertainment of a perverted kind, perhaps for a birthday. Here is one of the fundamental conundrums at the heart of this story; how was it possible that these most barbaric killers could apparently display genuine emotion on hearing such beautiful music? Even at its height the women's orchestra of Auschwitz was always something of a raggle-taggle mixture of amateurs, staying just one step ahead of their volatile oppressors. They were strengthened by having a few experienced musicians but everyone depended on each other, polished performers and relative beginners, all hoping in their weakened state they could play well enough together to stay alive until liberation. That most of them did reveals the extraordinary determination and reliance on female solidarity required to make the group successful. How and why was the orchestra formed, who were its members and what was its role in Nazi propaganda? Was it aimed at masking the atrocities in the camps or to provide solace to the perpetrators? What was the effect on those who owe their survival to being a part of this project and the inevitable compromises that were made? Can this possibly be described as complicity with the Nazis? These are just some of the tangled questions of deep moral complexity that Anne Sebba will examine as she tells the remarkable story of these women for the first time.
The Musicians Of Auschwitz
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Author : Fania Fénelon
language : en
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Release Date : 1977
The Musicians Of Auschwitz written by Fania Fénelon and has been published by Michael Joseph this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jazz Survivor
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Author : Ken Shuldman
language : en
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Release Date : 2017-01-23
Jazz Survivor written by Ken Shuldman and has been published by eBookIt.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the true story of Louis Bannet, a Jewish jazz musician known throughout Europe in the 1930's and 40's as The Dutch Louis Armstrong. The story travels from the nightclubs of Amsterdam to the nightmares of Auschwitz, where Louis Bannet's trumpet rang out amidst happiness and horror alike. Jazz Survivor gives strong testimony to both the indisputable power of music and the indefatigable strength of the human spirit.
The Violinist Of Auschwitz
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Author : Jean-Jacques Felstein
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2021-12-22
The Violinist Of Auschwitz written by Jean-Jacques Felstein and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A son chronicles his Jewish mother’s real-life efforts to save as many young women as possible from the Auschwitz gas chambers during World War II. Arrested in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz, Elsa survived because she had the “opportunity” to join the women’s orchestra. But Elsa kept her story a secret, even from her own family. Indeed, her son would only discover what had happened to his mother many years later, after gradually unearthing her unbelievable story following her premature death, without ever having revealed her secret to anyone . . . Jean-Jacques Felstein was determined to reconstruct Elsa’s life in Birkenau, and would go in search of other orchestra survivors in Germany, Belgium, Poland, Israel, and the United States. The recollections of Hélène, first violin, Violette, third violin, Anita, a cellist, and other musicians, allowed him to rediscover his twenty-year-old mother, lost in the heart of hell. The story unfolds in two intersecting stages: one, contemporary, is that of the investigation, the other is that of Auschwitz and its unimaginable daily life, as told by the musicians. They describe the recitals on which their very survival depended, the incessant rehearsals, the departure in the mornings for the forced labourers to the rhythm of the instruments, the Sunday concerts, and how Mengele pointed out the pieces in the repertoire he wished to listen to in between “selections.” In this remarkable book, Jean-Jacques Felstein follows in his mother’s footsteps and by telling her story, attempts to free her, and himself, from the pain that had been hidden in their family for so long.
Playing For Time
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Author : Fania Fénelon
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1997-09-01
Playing For Time written by Fania Fénelon and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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, Bergen-Belsen. With unnerving clarity and an astonishing ability to find humor where only despair should prevail, the author charts her eleven months as one of "the orchestra girls"; writes of the loves, the laughter, hatreds, jealousies, and tensions that racked this privileged group whose only hope of survival was to make music.
Music Of Another World
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Author : Szymon Laks
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2000
Music Of Another World written by Szymon Laks and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Translated from the 1948 French edition. A remarkable memoir of the Polish composer Szymon Laks. While interned at the Auschwitz extermination camp, Laks became kappelmeister of the Auschwitz band. With wit and self-detachment, he records the grotesque phenomena of music among the crematoria. Paper edition (unseen), $10.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Alma Rose
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Author : Richard Newman
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2003
Alma Rose written by Richard Newman and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Performing Arts categories.
Presents the story of a woman who saved the lives of many Jews who were members in her orchestra in Auschwitz.
Violinist In Auschwitz
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Author : Jacques Stroumsa
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2019-08-26
Violinist In Auschwitz written by Jacques Stroumsa and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jacques Stroumsa: Preface to the English edition Professor Dr. Erhard Roy Wiehn from the University of Konstanz and editor of an important collection of books about the Shoah, has asked me to write a preface for the English edition of my book, Violinist in Auschwitz. The experience acquired in Germany during my lectures at Gymnasia (high schools) in Berlin and neighboring Potsdam in 1993 and 1994 gave me a number of important insights which I would like to share with the English-speaking public. The Nazi concentration camps were intended to completely destroy the human personality and to reduce it to a number tattooed on the skin, like animals in a slaughterhouse. The questions that people asked were, for example: having survived physically after being in Auschwitz and Mauthausen for two years, having survived the terrible Death March in January 1945, how did you find the strength to be a human being again; how did you adjust to living in a normal society again? Above all, where did you find the strength to come back to Germany (the land where crime was so scientifically organized) and, day after day, tell young Germans the details of your sufferings? How could you tell them that the younger generation is not guilty, that they and their parents (who are now the same age as my children) were not even born at the time when these events occurred? The answers to these anguished questions were given to me by the children themselves; they were deeply moved by my lectures. One day, in December 1994, I received an invitation from Micaela von Marcard, head dramaturge of the Berlin State Opera, to attend the Memorial Concert to be given in Berlin on January 28, 1995, on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Also, Mrs. von Marcard asked me to write some "Memories of Auschwitz" for Vivace, the bulletin of the State Opera. I used the occasion of my visit to Berlin to present several lectures at various Gymnasia in the vicinity and, most important, to once again meet a few of the girls who had written to me after my original lectures. I am very grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Leonhard Dünnwald for organizing this reunion in their villa in BerIin. I am also very grateful to four girls, Juliana, Tina, Katrin and Kristin for coming so far to our meeting and for their most thoughtful contributions to the discussions of these very anguished questions. My sincere appreciation to James S. Brice, an American student at the University of Konstanz, for translation.