Encouraged by the Nazis to form marching bands to foster the myth death camps were places of industry, inmates with musical talent had a slightly better chance of surviving the Holocaust... and one ...

Anita Lasker survived the Holocaust because, as a Berlin teenager, she had enjoyed her cello lessons. The Hungarian Lily ...

I knew that on 24 May 1945, the surviving Jewish members of the women’s orchestra of Auschwitz, who had been sent to Belsen by their Nazi captors some months earlier, had given a Red Cross concert.

The biographer and journalist chooses her favourite works about women in war. Her latest book is "The Women's Orchestra of ...

Mr. Schiff, who has refused to play in Russia and his native Hungary because of strongman rule, said he was alarmed by ...

Anne Sebba’s remarkable book draws on real-life interviews with survivors of a group that saved them – but not without a cost ...

The best reissues of March include Faber’s paperback editions of three classic Samuel Beckett novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, ...

From a popular Bay Area jazz/swing crooner to a a revered chamber quartet playing the stately Kohl Mansion, there is a lot to ...