This obituary was originally published on Dec. 22, 1983. It is being republished for a package for Women’s History Month. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Fania Fénelon, whose memoir of her experiences singing in the inmate orchestra at Auschwitz was made into a controversial television movie, died of cancer Tuesday in the Kremlin Bicêtre Hospital in Paris. She was 74 years old. Miss Fénelon’s memoir, “Playing for Time,” described how she was saved from death in the Nazi concentration camp by being chosen to sing in the all-female...
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