1. Alma Rosé Alma Rosé was born in 1906 into a very famous family at the turn of the 19th century Vienna - father Arnold was the esteemed concert- master of the Vienna Philharmonic while mother Justine Mahler was the sister of Gustav Mahler,the famous composer. 2. Alma subsequently became a celebrated violinist in her own right. In 1932 she founded the woman’s orchestra Die Wiener Walzermädeln (The Waltzing Girls of Vienna). She led as conductor-soloist in concert tours throughout Europe. They disbanded when Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938. 3. At the outbreak of WWII, life gradually became difficult and dangerous for the Jews in Vienna, but Alma was fortunate to emigrate successfully with her father to London. 4. Unfortunately, she needed money to support him in his forced retirement, so accepted recital work in Holland, then a seemingly safe neutral country. After two years there, the Nazis invaded and she was forced to flee. Her luck ran out-she was captured and sent first to Drancy, then on to Auschwitz Concentration camp. 5. Alma Rosé was originally held in the dreaded Block 10 - the medical experiments unit - but when it was discovered that she was a famous violinist she was put in charge of the Women's Orchestra. Photo:Stephan van der Hoorn 6. . The orchestra contained an odd mix of instruments . In the concert dedicated to her by the Ra’anana Symphonette Orchestra, the first part of Beethoven’s 5th symphony was played by the orchestra and … mandolins . It is said that this is how Alma and her orchestra used to play this piece of music. 7. During her 10 months as conductor none of her musicians were gassed or died from other causes, almost a miracle in that hellish environment. 8. Alma died on 4.4.44 probably from food poisoning. She was 37. In a bizarre twist, one of the doctors who tried to save her was Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death“ himself. Author: C.Puisney 9. ‫דביר‬ ‫ביתן‬ ‫זמורה‬ ‫כינרת‬ ‫הספרים‬ ‫הוצאת‬ ‫)באדיבות‬ ‫רוזה‬ ‫אלמה‬ The Women's Orchestra continued to receive relatively preferential treatment until September 1944, when they were evacuated to the Bergen-Belsen camp; all but two of Rosé's players lived to see the end of the war. 10. Richard Newman's biography "Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz" (2000( 11. My Father’s Violin By Helen Wininger Livnat In remembrance of the “SHOA”, the Holocaust To play the violin- Your eyes bursting with tears Across the worst of pains. 12. The sane world is dying in front of you But you can’t save the doomed . 13. Helen To play –with your murdered dead around you And your baby daughter has no food left. To play– in front of your joyous enemies. To be rewarded by peels from the trash And a quarter loaf of black bread. 14. All this will never happen to us! The Holocaust happened one too many times 15. But No one will expel us No one will burn us In any country in the

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