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The Truth about Fania Fénelon and the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Authors:
  1. Susan Eischeid

    1. Department of Music, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, USA

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  • Questions the portrayal of the Women's Orchestra in Playing for Time

  • Analyses how popular culture has remembered both this orchestra and the Holocaust

  • Uses archival sources as well as interviews with surviving orchestra members

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Truth About Fania Fénelon and the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz-Birkenau

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 1-4

  3. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Women’s Orchestra

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 5-10

  4. Fania Fénelon and the Inception of Playing for Time

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 11-15

  5. Problematic Aspects of Fania Fénelon’s Testimony in Playing for Time

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 17-20

  6. Goals for Exposing the Inconsistencies in Fénelon’s Holocaust Memoir

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 21-23

  7. Key Issues of Distortion and Embellishment in Fania Fénelon’s Playing for Time

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 25-43

  8. Other Issues of Distortion and Embellishment in Fania Fénelon’s Playing for Time

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 45-69

  9. Key Issues of Fénelon’s Personal Biographical Embellishment in Playing for Time

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 71-76

  10. Scholarly, Educational, and Commercial Treatment of Playing for Time by Fania Fénelon

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 77-85

  11. The Response of the Other Survivors and Press Response to Playing for Time

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 87-98

  12. The Television Movie Based on Fania Fénelon’s Playing for Time

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 99-115

  13. The Artistic Influence of Fénelon’s Memoir: The Playing for Time Phenomenon

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 117-126

  14. Memoirs by the Other Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Women’s Orchestra and the Second Generation Legacy

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 127-131

  15. Addressing the Revisionists Regarding Fania Fénelon’s Holocaust Memoir

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 133-136

  16. Coda in a Minor Key: The Legacy of Fania Fénelon

    • Susan Eischeid
    Pages 137-138

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 139-151
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About this book

This book explores how the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau has been remembered in both media and popular culture since the end of the Second World War. In particular it focuses on Fania Fenelon’s memoir, Playing for Time (1976), which was subsequently adapted into a film. Since then the publication has become a cornerstone of Holocaust remembrance and scholarship. Susan Eischeid therefore investigates whether it deserves such status, and whether such material can ever be considered reliable source material for historians. Using divergent source material gathered by the author, such as interviews with the other surviving members of the orchestra, this Pivot seeks to shed light on this period of women’s history, and questions how we remember the Holocaust today.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Music, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, USA

    Susan Eischeid

About the author

Susan Eischeid is Professor at the Department of Music at Valdosta State University, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Truth about Fania Fénelon and the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz-Birkenau

  • Authors: Susan Eischeid

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31038-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31037-4Published: 06 July 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80948-9Published: 31 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31038-1Published: 25 June 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 151

  • Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Film History, History of Modern Europe

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