Alice's Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

by Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki

Book Overview

"How music provided hope in one of the world's darkest times--the inspirational life story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor" Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. A talented pianist from a very early age, she became famous throughout Europe; but, as the Nazis rose to power, her world crumbled. In 1942, her mother was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and vanished. In 1943, Alice, her husband and their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250007410
• ISBN13: 9781250007414
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"