Anne Sebba | The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
Sat 26 Apr 2025 | 10:00am – 11:00am

In The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, prize-winning biographer Anne Sebba unveils the astonishing and complex story of the female prisoners who were forced to play music for both fellow inmates and Nazi officers at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In 1943, the German SS officers ordered the formation of an all-female orchestra made up of nearly fifty women from eleven nations. While enduring the unimaginable horrors of the camp, these women were coerced into performing weekly concerts for Nazi officers and playing music for marching prisoners.