A Conversation with Anne Sebba: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
The History Chicks : A Women's History PodcastShow Notes
To leave you with a bit of lagniappe for Women's History Month, we broke our usual format to sit down for a talk with Anne Sebba, author of the new book The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival. Anne tells us about some of the women in the only entirely female orchestra in any Nazi prison camp. She talks about her process of learning about these women, organizing their stories into this book, and about other biographies she's written in the past, about the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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