Playing for Time

Playing for Time
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0815604947
ISBN-13 : 9780815604945
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Book Synopsis Playing for Time by : Fania Fénelon

Download or read book Playing for Time written by Fania Fénelon and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, Fania Fénelon was a Paris cabaret singer, a secret member of the Resistance, and a Jew. Captured by the Nazis, she was sent to Auschwitz, and later, Bergen-Belsen. With unnerving clarity and an astonishing ability to find humor where only despair should prevail, the author charts her eleven months as one of "the orchestra girls"; writes of the loves, the laughter, hatreds, jealousies, and tensions that racked this privileged group whose only hope of survival was to make music.


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