Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello and welcome to the show. This is Susan, and I am Beckettless this week, but I'm not alone.

As our last episode in our March of 2025, Women's History Month, one episode a week, Marathon, we thought

we would give you a little line-up, a little something extra.

Normally, we do not do author interviews, and quite frankly, I don't know if I'd even consider

this an interview as much as it's a conversation. We have used a couple of Anne Seba's books as part of our research for a couple former

subjects, for Wallace Simpson, which is why we posted her again last week for Jenny Jerome

Churchill.

When we got word that she has a new book coming out, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz,

a Story of Survival, we got our hands on it and read it,

and we've really, really liked it. And because of the nature of this book, we are bringing this

episode to you ad-free. Thank you for hanging out with us, and we'll see you in a couple weeks.

But now, on with the show. Hello and welcome to the show.

This week we're going to do something just a little bit different.

We're talking with the author of a brand new book called The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz,

a survival story.

So today we're going to be in conversation with Anne Seba. Hi, Ann. How are you?

Hi, I'm absolutely fine. And thank you very much for breaking from tradition and doing an

interview with me. I'm thrilled to be here. Well, Becca, who could not be here today,

unfortunately, but we've used your books as part of our research before

for Jenny Jerome Churchill and for Wallace Simpson. So when I saw this come through this new book,

the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, and I know that we're going to be talking about somebody

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