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The women's orchestra of Auschwitz c 1980 to c 1990 Did you know that theIn 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. While still living amid the most brutal and dehumanising of circumstances, they were also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers, and individual members were sometimes summoned to give solo performances of an officer's favourite piece of music. What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on