The sixth of eight programmes Fania Fenelon
FANIA FENELON , a singer and cabaret artiste, spent three-and-a-half years of the Second World War in the French Resistance. She sang in Paris nightclubs reserved for German soldiers and in between singing, talked to them and spied on them.
She was arrested, tortured for three months and sent to Auschwitz where she was recruited into the camp orchestra.
Now an American television company has made a film of her life-story-but because of the casting of Vanessa Redgrave , a Palestinian Liberation Organisation supporter, as Fania, Madame Fenelon attempted to stop the film being made. In tonight's programme she tells her story and explains how she came to terms with the film.
Series producer jim MURRAY