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Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague, the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around her, as anti-Jewish feeling not only intensified but was legitimised. In 1942, Alice's mother was deported. Desperately unhappy, she resolved to learn Chopin's 24 Etudes - the most technically demanding piano pieces she knew - and the complex but beautiful music saved her sanity. A year later, she, too - together with her husband and their six-year-old son - was deported to a concentration camp. But even in Theresienstadt, music was her salvation and in the course of more than a hundred concerts she gave her fellow-prisoners hope in a world of pain and death. This is her remarkable story, but it is also the story of a mother's struggle to create a happy childhood for her beloved only son in the midst of atrocity and barbarism. Of 15,000 children sent to the camp, Raphael was one of the 130 who survived. Today, Alice Herz-Sommer lives in London and she still plays the piano every day.
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Alice's experience makes you marvel at the resilience of the human spirit in the face of the most appalling mental and physical torment. --.
One of the book's most successful aspects is the way it interweaves a discussion of those incredibly charged miniatures with a chronicle of the lives (and usually tragic) fates of the people who might have been listening to Herz-Sommer in Theresienstadt...Herz-Sommer's story deserves to be told...Against all odds, truth and beauty survive. --The Times
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A compelling and moving biography of a brilliant pianist whose music helped her survive the Holocaust
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- PublisherPan Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1447276612
- ISBN 13 9781447276616
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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