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Playing for Time is a 1980 CBS television film, written by Arthur Miller and based on acclaimed musician Fania Fénelon's autobiography The Musicians of Auschwitz. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fénelon.
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Fania Fénelon (née Fanja Goldstein; 2 September 1908 – 19 December 1983) was a French pianist, composer and cabaret singer whose 1976 memoir, Sursis pour l'orchestre, about survival in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz during the Holocaust was adapted as the 1980 television film, Playing for Time.
A member of the orchestra, Fania Fénelon, published her experiences as an autobiography, Sursis pour l'orchestre (1976), which appeared in English as Playing for Time (1977). The book was the basis of a television film of the same name in 1980, written by Arthur Miller.
In this chapter Eischeid details the inception and production of the CBS television film based on Fania Fénelon’s Holocaust memoir Playing for Time.
Jun 25, 2016 · This book explores how the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau has been remembered in both media and popular culture since the end of the Second World War. In particular it focuses on Fania...
Jun 26, 2016 · In the years after the appearance of Fania Fénelon’s Holocaust memoir Playing for Time, other members of the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau began to publish their own remembrances.
Jun 26, 2016 · In this introductory chapter, Eischeid provides the context and rationale for her comprehensive rebuttal of the 1976 Holocaust memoir Playing for Time by Fania Fénelon. Fénelon’s book has become a cornerstone of Holocaust scholarship, selling thousands of copies.
