That is the question most often put to me when I tell people I have been writing about a women’s orchestra which played inside Auschwitz on a twice-daily basis – and which saved the lives of ...

Echoes of history’s discords – book review by Dr Anne Sarzin At this time of the year when Yom Hashoah remembrance ceremonies ...

Holocaust survivors, IDF soldiers held in captivity by Hamas terrorists, visited the Auschwitz museum ahead of Holocaust ...

Maria Mandl, known as ‘The Beast,’ was the sadistic SS chief guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau who founded the women’s orchestra. Notorious for her brutality, Mandl smiled while selecting ...

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At the gates of Auschwitz, prisoners were marched to work at 5.30 a.m., and home again in the evening, often carrying the corpses of their companions. They did this to the strains of an orchestra ...

The BBC's The Last Musician of Auschwitz, directed by Toby Trackman, tells the story of cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, "who at 99 is the only surviving member of the Women's Orchestra at Auschwitz." ...

US director Ryan Coogler on his supernatural horror film Sinners. Anne Sebba discusses her new book, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, about the orchestra formed in 1943 among the female prisoners ...

If the remarkable story of the women’s orchestra in Auschwitz-Birkenau is well known, it’s because so many of its surviving members were interviewed about it after the war, or penned memoirs ...

At the gates of Auschwitz, prisoners were marched to work at 5.30 a.m., and home again in the evening, often carrying the corpses of ...