In An Orchestra of Minorities, the two lovers find themselves separated by their differing status: her family will not allow them to marry. As the man attempts to work his way past betrayers and ...

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 ...

Mike Wilkins: alto sax, clarinet; Vasilis Xenopoulos: alto sax, flute; Paul Booth: tenor saxophones, clarinets; Stewart Curtis: tenor saxophones, clarinets; Erica ...

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

In this deeply affecting book, Sebba reconstructs the experiences of the women, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who played in the orchestra in Auschwitz-Birkenau. There is a terrible paradox at the ...