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Fania Fénelon. Fania Fénelon (née Fanja Goldstein; 2 September 1908 – 19 December 1983) [1] was a French pianist, composer and cabaret singer whose 1976 memoir, Sursis pour l'orchestre, about survival in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz during the Holocaust was adapted as the 1980 television film, Playing for Time .
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz ( Mädchenorchester von Auschwitz; lit. "Girls' Orchestra of Auschwitz") was formed by order of the SS in 1943, during the Holocaust, in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] [2] Active for 19 months—from April 1943 until October 1944—the orchestra consisted of mostly ...
Alma Maria Rosé (3 November 1906 – 4/5 April 1944 [1]) was an Austrian violinist of Jewish descent. Her uncle was the composer Gustav Mahler. She was deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, for 10 months, she directed an orchestra of female prisoners who played for their captors to stay alive.
Fragments of musical scores discovered at Auschwitz will be played for the first time next week after being painstakingly restored by a composer.. Leo Geyer, 31, who is also a conductor, said he ...
September 30, 1980. ( 1980-09-30) Playing for Time is a 1980 CBS television film, written by Arthur Miller and based on acclaimed musician Fania Fénelon 's autobiography The Musicians of Auschwitz. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fénelon. Playing for Time was based on Fénelon's experience as a female prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp ...
Krzysztof Penderecki's Dies Irae (also known as the "Auschwitz Oratorio") is a well known work written in memory of the Holocaust. Chava Alberstein; David Amram (1930– ) B. Dawid Beigelman (1887–1945) Karel Berman; David Botwinik (1920–2022) C. John Cage (1912–1992) E. Hanns Eisler (1898–1962) F. Grigory Frid (1915–2012)
The Ovitz family was a family of Hungarian Jewish actors/traveling musicians originating from present Romania, who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Most of them were dwarfs. [1] They were the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded and were the largest family to enter Auschwitz and survive intact ...
Anita and Renate were sent to Auschwitz in December 1943 on separate prison trains, a far less squalid way to arrive than by cattle truck, and less dangerous, since there was no selection on arrival. Playing in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz saved her, as cello players were difficult to replace. The orchestra played marches as the slave ...