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One of the few survivors of the women's orchestra in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination complex recalls her experiences, those of her fellow musicians, and the ironies and degradations of camp life
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In 1943, Fania Fenelon 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.
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In 1943, Fania Fenelon was a Paris cabaret singer, a secret member of the Resistance, and a Jew. Captured by the Nazis, she was sent to Auschwitz where she became one of the legendary "orchestra girls" who used music to survive the Holocaust. This is her personal account of the experience.
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 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. Condition: Covers have some wear, pages are clean and binding is firm. Seller Inventory # ABE-1710044541815
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Playing for Time
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ISBN 10: 0425041999
ISBN 13: 9780425041994
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ISBN 10: 0425041999
ISBN 13: 9780425041994
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Berkley Edition, May, 1979. 289 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light scratch on top edge. Seller Inventory # 2iEc0053b
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