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Explore the profound and often haunting role of music during the Holocaust, examining how it served as a means of survival, resistance, and emotional expression within concentration camps and ghettos amidst unimaginable suffering.

The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, also known as the Girls' Orchestra, was a unique and tragic ensemble of female prisoners forced to perform music at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust. Established in 1943, these musicians played for the SS and sometimes for fellow prisoners, navigating a brutal existence where their musical talent offered a complex and fragile means of survival or brief reprieve.