08 Sep 2006
Auschwitz Women's Orchestra Provided a Soundtrack for Suffering
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By Shirley Apthorp [Blomberg.com, 8 September 2006]
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Women musicians were forced by the Nazis to provide a soothing soundtrack as prisoners arrived at Auschwitz or were marched to the gas chambers.