Playing for Time (English and French Edition)

Marcelle Routier,Fania Fenelon

ISBN 10: 068910796X / ISBN 13: 9780689107962

Published by Atheneum, 1977

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Playing for Time (English and French Edition)
• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068910796X
• ISBN 13: 9780689107962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

One of the few survivors of the women's orchestra in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination complex recalls her experiences, those of her fellow musicians, and the ironies and degradations of camp life

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.