| LC control no. | n 50002567 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fénelon, Fania |
| Other standard no. | Q545630 |
| Associated country | France |
| Located | Paris (France) |
| Birth date | 1918-09-02 |
| Death date | 1983-12-19 |
| Place of birth | Paris (France) |
| Place of death | Paris (France) |
| Field of activity | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
| Affiliation | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Drancy (Internment camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Authors Pianists Composers |
| Found in | Her Sursis pour l'orchestre, c1976. Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1918) Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature, 2002: pages 47-48 (Fania Fénelon, 1918-1983; wrote memoir "Sursis pour l'orchestre" which was produced into a film in 1980, Playing for Time, that describes the women's orchestra of Auschwitz. Born in France in 1918 as Fania Goldstein, took Fénelon as her name as a singer on the Parasian cabaret circuit. Sent to Drancy concentration camp outside Paris, then sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in January 1944 where she was put into the orchestra until November 1944 when she was sent to Bergen-Belsen until it was liberated on April 15, 1945. After the war she resumed her career as a singer ) Wikipedia, viewed July 5, 2023: under "Fania Fénelon" (born September 2, 1908 in Paris, France, died December 19, 1983 in a Paris hospital. French pianist, composer and cabaret singer) |
| Associated language | fre |
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