Anne Sebba: "The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz"
Anne Sebba is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), a biographer, lecturer, journalist, former Reuters foreign correspondent, and author of 11 books for adults. She read History at King’s College London, and her first job was at the BBC World Services in the Arabic Department. Her latest book is "The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival."

"The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz" recounts how German SS officers in charge of the notorious concentration camp decided an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners in 1943. Almost 50 women and girls from 11 nations were drafted into a band that would play marching music to other inmates. While still living amid the most brutal and dehumanising of circumstances, they were 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. In "The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz,"  award-winning historian Anne Sebba traces tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care.

Before that, she wrote "Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy" (2021 publication and film rights sold to Miramax). Her book about Paris from 1939 to 49 through women’s eyes, "Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940’s," published in 2016, was called "a standout social history" by Booklist and was a winner of the Franco-British Society prize.

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