Playing for Time (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Fania Fénelon
- First Published: 1976
- Time of Work: 1944–1945
- Setting: France, Germany, and Poland
- Principal Characters: Fania Fénelon, Clara, Alma Rosé, Tchaikowska, Frau Maria Mandel, Joseph Kramer
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: France or French people, Autobiography, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Nazism or Nazis, Entertaining or entertainers, Holocaust, Jewish, Poland or Polish people, Concentration camps, Orchestras or orchestral music
- Locales: France, Germany, Poland
Form and Content
Fania Fénelon tells her story of terror and survival at Auschwitz in Playing for Time. In German-occupied Paris, she had been a nightclub singer, well trained in both classical and popular music. The Nazis arrested her for aiding the French Resistance late in 1943. Once they found out that her father, Jules Goldstein, was a Jew, they shipped her to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the combination work camp and death factory in occupied Poland. She survived the journey and the initial selection of deportees for the gas chambers, along with her friend Clara, and was...
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