The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

Anne Sebba
7.30pm
Tuesday 14 October 2025
St Mary’s Barnes

What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it feel to be forced to provide solace to the perpetrators of a genocide that claimed the lives of their family and friends? In The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, award-winning historian Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care.

Anne will be talking to Eleanor Oldroyd, a BBC radio journalist.