In this episode, I speak with historian and journalist Anne Sebba about her book The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz and the unsettling role music played inside the Nazi camp system.
Music is usually associated with comfort or beauty. However, at Auschwitz, it was used as a tool of control, discipline, and deception. Anne explains why the orchestra was not about uplift or art, but rather a functional part of how the camp operated day-to-day.
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