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. They would return to the camp, exhausted and often broken, at the end of the day.

Book: The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)