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(Sunday Times-UK) Jessica Sharkey - When Alma Rose was taken into a barracks at the Auschwitz concentration camp known for brutal medical experiments, she thought she was about to die on the operating table. In what she thought would be a final request, Rose - an Austrian virtuoso violinist and niece of the composer Gustav Mahler - asked for a violin and played. That performance impressed Maria Mandl, a senior SS guard, who appointed Rose as conductor of her pet project, the women's orchestra of Auschwitz II-Birkenau, which ultimately spared up to 45 other women from certain death. The orchestra was forced to play as prisoners marched to forced labor and to entertain Nazi officers. Anne Sebba, who tells the musicians' stories in her book The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, said: "By tripling the size of the orchestra she saved as many young Jewish girls as she could because she knew that the Jewish girls would go straight to the gas." Orchestra members, exempt from hard labor, were housed together and had a greater chance of survival if they fell ill.2025-07-03 00:00:00Full Article
How Gustav Mahler's Niece Saved 45 Women in Auschwitz
(Sunday Times-UK) Jessica Sharkey - When Alma Rose was taken into a barracks at the Auschwitz concentration camp known for brutal medical experiments, she thought she was about to die on the operating table. In what she thought would be a final request, Rose - an Austrian virtuoso violinist and niece of the composer Gustav Mahler - asked for a violin and played. That performance impressed Maria Mandl, a senior SS guard, who appointed Rose as conductor of her pet project, the women's orchestra of Auschwitz II-Birkenau, which ultimately spared up to 45 other women from certain death. The orchestra was forced to play as prisoners marched to forced labor and to entertain Nazi officers. Anne Sebba, who tells the musicians' stories in her book The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, said: "By tripling the size of the orchestra she saved as many young Jewish girls as she could because she knew that the Jewish girls would go straight to the gas." Orchestra members, exempt from hard labor, were housed together and had a greater chance of survival if they fell ill.2025-07-03 00:00:00Full Article
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