when music meets ... extermination
when music meets ... extermination
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From 1943 onwards, the SS fulfilled its fantasy of bringing together over forty female musicians from all over Europe in the Auschwitz orchestra. They were directed by the niece of Gustav Mahler, Alma Rose, whom the survivors still worship to this day.
Twelve women who still call themselves the "Orchestra", ask us questions about the passing on of the memory of the Holocaust through the sole prism of the music which shaped their entire lives. They confront us with the evolution of the memory which has been distorted by commemorations, official history and sensational novels. They do so without calculation, but because of their unique equation: surviving between the music and extermination.
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12 SURVIVORS
•Violette (France) - Anita (UK)
•Hélène (Belgium) -Eva (Germany)
•Flora (Holland) - Margotte (Tchekia) - Yvette (USA) - Regina (Israel) - Sylvia (Israel) - Hilde (Israel) - Helena (Poland) - Zosia (Poland)