Encouraged by the Nazis to form marching bands to foster the myth death camps were places of industry, inmates with musical ...

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.

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

For 80 years, the haunting melodies of Auschwitz lay buried in silence, hidden among the archives of one of history’s darkest chapters. Now, for the first time, this lost music – composed by ...

Matching the handwriting on the composition to music in the Polish archive revealed it to be by Mieczysław Krzyński, the deputy conductor of the Auschwitz I orchestra. In a recent documentary ...

One Auschwitz survivor insisted her daughter learnt how to play violin for one important reason, according to a British composer. Ahead of the 8th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz ...

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

“Der Kaiser von Atlantis” was written in Theresienstadt by the Czech-Jewish composer Viktor Ullman, who was murdered. The teen violinist survived. (JTA) — Paul Kling was 14 when he played ...

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, this documentary tells the story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the only surviving member of the women's orchestra at Auschwitz. Now 99, Anita reveals how when she ...

Anita survived Auschwitz as a cello player in the Auschwitz women’s orchestra. The orchestra would play daily as prisoners marched to work as well as playing for the SS guards whenever required.

Featuring interviews with some of the last remaining survivors of the genocide and the Auschwitz orchestra, Geyer reveals how musicians rebelled with secret melodies and forbidden notes hidden ...