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Fania Fénelon (1908–1983)

Autor de Playing for Time

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Nombre canónico
Fénelon, Fania
Nombre legal
Goldstein, Fania
Otros nombres
Fénelon
Perla, Fanja
Fecha de nacimiento
1908-09-02
Fecha de fallecimiento
1983-12-19
Género
female
Nacionalidad
France
Lugar de nacimiento
Paris, France
Lugar de fallecimiento
Paris, France
Lugares de residencia
Paris, France (birth)
East Berlin, GDR
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
Bergen Belsen concentration camp
Educación
Conservatoire de Paris
Ocupaciones
pianist
composer
cabaret singer
memoirist
Holocaust survivor
Organizaciones
Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
Biografía breve
Fania Fénelon, née Goldstein, was born in Paris, the daughter of Jules Goldstein, a Jewish engineer who had emigrated from Russia or Poland, and his French Catholic wife Marie. She attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where she won first prize in piano, despite her diminutive size and very small hands. She also worked nights as a singer in Parisian bars. An early marriage to Silvio Perla, a Swiss athlete, ended in divorce. During World War II, she smuggled information to the French Resistance, until being arrested and deported in 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. There she was a member of the all-female orchestra that played for the Germans and for the prisoners as they went out to forced labor. She was then sent to Bergen-Belsen, where she survived to be liberated in 1945. Under the pseudonym of "Fania Fénelon," which she adopted after the war, she became a well known cabaret singer and entertainer. In 1973-75, with Marcelle Routier, she wrote Sursis pour l'orchestre (English translation, Playing for Time), a novel-memoir about her Holocaust experiences, based on the diary she kept at the time. It was adapted by Arthur Miller as a stage play and in 1980 as a television movie.

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Il campo di Auschwitz-Birkenau è l'unico a possedere un'orchestra femminile, nella quale, nonostante tutto, può sopravvivere la speranza (fonte: Google Books)
 
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