Fania Fénelon and the Years after Auschwitz

She was 20 years old when she 1943 on the street arrested by the Gestapo and in the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau deported. In "Girl Orchestra of Auschwitz" sings and plays with other prisoners to the maintenance of the Nazi criminals downright for their lives. Fania Fénelon survived the hell of Auschwitz, returns to Paris and will be back in September 1945 as a singer with the U.S. army to Frankfurt committed. For the love she prefers to 1966 in the GDR, where over the years on television and at the opera Café "Unter den Linden" their performances. Their experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz appeared in 1976 in Paris under the title "The girl orchestra in Auschwitz." The book was the basis for a 1981 TV in the U.S., when the playwright Arthur Miller wrote the screenplay and the role of Fania Fénelon with the British actress Vanessa Redgrave was filled.