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She was the daughter of a Jewish salesman. In Paris she went to the Conservatoire de Paris and, at the same time, worked nights, singing under the Pseudonym Fania Fénelon, in bars. In the Second World War she supported the resistance agaisnt the Nazis and was first deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was a member of the girl orchestra of Auschwitz, then to Bergen-Belsen, until she was freed in 1945.
Under her pseudonym Fania Goldstein became a well known cabaret singer. In 1966 she went with her colourful 'life-partner' to East Berlin, after their death she returned to France. Between 1973 and 1975 she wrote the book Sursis pour l'orchestre, in which she described her experiences. The book was based on her diary from the concentration camps.
Arthur Miller filmed the book under the title Playing For Time. Fania 'Fénelon' Goldstein died on the 19th December 1983 in a Paris Hospital.
Books
- Fania Fénelon: Das Mädchenorchester in Auschwitz. dtb, München, 1991, ISBN 3-423-01706-6