Anne Sebba
The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Using archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts, award-winning historian Anne Sebba examines how women and girls were drafted into a band which had to give weekly concerts to Nazi officers and play marching music to other inmates, as they returned to the camp, exhausted and often broken, at the end of the day.
- The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
- View Book
- Sunday, 16th March 2025
- 12:30pm
- Main House
- £13.00
