Anne Sebba The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

The award-winning historian draws on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of how, in 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? Discover the complex answers.