TLC Talk: Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz – Anne Sebba
Monday 23rd February at 11:00 | £15
In 1943, officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra be formed among the female prisoners. While living amid inconceivable suffering, fifty women and girls from 11 nations were forced to play for other inmates and forced labourers and give concerts for Nazi officers. Almost all the musicians survived the horror. With faultless research and access to first hand records, award-winning historian Anne Sebba tells the astonishing story with sensitivity and care.