Playing for Time

Fenelon, Fania, with Routier, Marcelle, trans. by Judith Landry

ISBN 10: 068910796X / ISBN 13: 9780689107962

Published by Atheneum, New York, 1977

About this Item

262, DJ somewhat worn and soiled: edge ters/chips. 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 where she became one of the legendary "orchestra girls" who used music to survive the Holocaust.

Seller Inventory # 53885

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Playing for Time
• Publisher: Atheneum, New York
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068910796X
• ISBN 13: 9780689107962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good, good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Holocaust
  • Auschwitz

About this title

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.