Fania Fenelon: Playing For Time

Fania Fenelon; Marcelle Routier

ISBN 10: 0425041999 / ISBN 13: 9780425041994

Published by Berkley Books, 1979

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fania Fenelon: Playing For Time
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0425041999
• ISBN 13: 9780425041994
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 5 ounces

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Synopsis

Book by Fania Fenelon, Marcelle Routier

From the Back Cover

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.