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Amazing Video of Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor & Pianist Alice Herz-Sommer (110 years old now).

Listen to Alice Herz-Sommer, now 110 years old (109 when the video was made) play the piano. She is the oldest living Holocaust survivor.  Alice was born in Prague, Austria-Hungary. Her father was a merchant, her mother was highly educated and moved in circles of well-known writers, and her older sister Irma taught her how to play piano, which she studied diligently. She also studied under Václav Štěpán (cs), and at the Prague German Conservatory of Music. She had begun giving concerts and making a name for herself before the Germans took over her city. In July 1943, Alice, her husband, and six-year-old son Raphael were sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp where she played more than 100 concerts with other musicians. Her husband was later sent to Auschwitz and then to Dachau where he died in 1944. After the Soviet liberation of Theresienstadt in 1945, Alice and her son returned to Prague and in March 1949 emigrated to Israel to be reunited with her family. She lived in Israel and worked as a music teacher in Jerusalem until emigrating to London in 1986. Watch this amazing video and please share it with others -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oxO3M6rAPw#t=27

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