By Sapeer Mayron on Stuff…
Sundays in Auschwitz-Birkenau could often be a pleasant affair for the Nazi officers running the death camp.
Yet for women forced to play music as their entertainment – soon after being deported from their homes, having their heads shaved and numbers tattooed on their arms – those performances were torturous.
Yes. In this infamous camp of Nazi Germany, where prisoners were segregated by sex, some prisoners were put to use entertaining the army, or distracting newly arrived prisoners from their fate.
Now, more than seven decades later, they are being remembered with a series of public concerts in Aotearoa.
It’s personal for cellist and concert director Dr Inbal Megiddo, a Jewish musician from Wellington who wants to bring their stories to life in the most powerful way she knows how: through their music.
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