Will I love The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz?

Anita Lasker survived the Holocaust because, as a Berlin teenager, she had enjoyed cello lessons. Lily Mathé’s violin performances had once impressed the man who became the Auschwitz commandant. Alma Rosé, the talented niece of Gustav Mahler, became the conductor who kept these young women and forty others alive through ferocious discipline and determination.

The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz recounts not only the lives of the women who were once forced to play melodies in the darkest moments of the twentieth century, but also the ethical questions that haunted the survivors. 

A wonderful study of a group of courageous and talented women in a horrible place. I learned new and different things.