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In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970.
On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha…
The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.
On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…
I'm an author, broadcaster and public historian specialising in women’s experiences during the Second World War. While courage and sacrifice are often recognised, the effectiveness of the women who served is less frequently acknowledged. Popular culture tends to focus on glamour, yet these women were motivated by the same patriotism and sense of duty as men, while facing sexism, unequal pay, and fewer protections. Through my books and public history work, I aim to restore recognition of their achievements. This has included securing portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, public sculptures, and an English Heritage Blue Plaque. I regularly contribute to BBC television and radio, and my books have won or been shortlisted for major literary, historical, and biography prizes.
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.
'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE 'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS 'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZ
What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it feel to be forced to provide solace to the perpetrators of a genocide that claimed the lives of their family and friends?
In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were assembled to play…
