Event Details
Florida JCC’s Virtual Book Festival

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

Monday, January 26, 4:00 PM

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz chronicles how nearly fifty female prisoners formed an orchestra in the Nazi concentration camp, playing music for guards and fellow inmates to survive, exploring the profound moral dilemmas and resilience of these musicians forced to create beauty amidst horrific brutality.

Anne Sebba is a prize-winning biographer, lecturer, and former Reuters foreign correspondent who has written several books, including That Woman and Les Parisiennes. A former chair of Britain’s Society of Authors and now on the Council, Anne is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. She lives in London.

The zoom link for the event will be sent the day of the program.