Fania Fénelon

Fania Fénelon ( born September 2, 1922 in Paris as Fania Goldstein, † December 19, 1983 ibid ) was a French chanteuse.

She was born the daughter of a Jewish merchant. In Paris she attended the Academy of Music and worked part-time at night as a singer under the pseudonym Fania Fénelon in bars.

During World War II she supported the resistance against the Nazis and was deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz- Birkenau, where she was a member of the girl orchestra of Auschwitz. She was later transferred to Bergen- Belsen, where she was liberated in 1945.

Fania Goldstein was under her pseudonym known to a chanson singer. In 1966 she moved with her ​​partner to East Berlin, but came after his death back to France. During this time she taught at times the subject Chanson at the Hans Otto Theatre School in Leipzig.

From 1973 to 1975 she wrote the novel The girl orchestra in Auschwitz, where they processed their experiences. As a mnemonic, she used her diary of the storage period. The book was criticized by most of the other survivors of the Girl orchestra, mainly because of the negative representation Alma roses.