A century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor / Caroline Stoessinger

Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.C97 H488 2012

Variant Title: Lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Stoessinger, Caroline.
Published: New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2012
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-232)
Language: English
Edition: 1st ed

Physical Description: xxi, 232 p. : port. ; 20 cm.
Contents: Alice and Franz Kafka
Interlude: An emerald ring
A tolerant heart
Peeling potatoes
Interlude: Dreaming
Piano lessons
Interlude: Fire
Starting over
The tin spoon
Never too old
Interlude: Chicken soup
Music was our food
The Führer gives the Jews a city
Snapshots
Interlude: Old age
Man in the glass booth
No harsh words
First flight
Alice the teacher
Interlude: The lady in number six
Circle of friends
Coda: Alice today.
ISBN: 9780812992816
0812992814 (trade : alk. paper)
9780679644019 (ebook)
0679644016 (ebook)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-232).
Subjects: Jews--Czech Republic--Prague--Biography.
Women pianists--Biography.
Holocaust survivors--Israel--Biography.
Holocaust survivors--England--London--Biography.
Prague (Czech Republic)--Biography.
Herz-Sommer, Alice,--1903-2014.
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
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