Commémorations 2024 (Dissolution: Orchestre des femmes d'Auschwitz (camp d'extermination de Birkenau))
- Orchestre de jeunes
- camp d'extermination de Birkenau
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2024-05-02
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Playing For Time was based on Fénelon's experience as a female prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she and a group of classical musicians were spared in return for performing music for their captors.Fénelon, a Jewish singer-pianist, is sent with other prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in a crowded train during World War II. After having their belongings and clothes taken and their heads shaved, the prisoners are processed and enter the camp. Fénelon is recognized as being a famous musician and she finds that she will be able to avoid hard manual labor and survive longer by becoming a member of the prison's female orchestra, Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. In the process, she strikes up a close relationship with Alma Rosé, the musical group's leader, as well as the other members of the band. Realizing that the musicians get better treatment than other prisoners, Fania convinces the guards and members of the orchestra that another prisoner she had befriended, Marianne, is actually a talented singer. Although Marianne performs poorly at her audition, she is allowed to join the orchestra. Playing for the Nazis, however, robs the women of much of their dignity and most of them often questioned whether remaining alive was worth the abuse they constantly suffer. This was nominated for a Golden Globe award but in my opinion Vanessa Redgrave should have won an oscar for this film for the part she convincingly played with passion and emotion. Vanessa Redgrave is probably the British equivalent of actress Nicole Kidman. SEE The Counterfiters true WW2 movie aswell.
Rachela Zelmanowicz-Olewski was part of a women's orchestra. In Auschwitz. The Nazis created prisoner orchestras in the concentration camps in Auschwitz, Terezin, and Janowska, among others, which were made to play for laboring prisoners as they went on work assignments or to entertain the SS. For many of the orchestra members, it was the only ticket to stay alive. Rachela only gave testimony about her experience decades after the Holocaust, called "Crying is Forbidden Here." Today, marking Black Ribbon Day, a day of remembrance for the victims of Nazism and Stalinizm, this is the story of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz.
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Tous les jours, soclassiq cherche de nouveaux articles, vidéos, concerts, etc. sur la musique classique et l'opéra, leurs artistes, leurs lieux de concert, leurs orchestres....
Orchestre des femmes d'Auschwitz ? Nous n'avons pas encore rassemblé beaucoup de contenu sur ce sujet, mais nous continuons à chercher.
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