The subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world\'s Oldest Holocaust Survivor when she died on February 23, 2014.
Praise for A Century of Wisdom "An instruction manual for a Life well lived."--The Wall Street Journal "As if her 108 years of experience alone were not enough to coax you, there is t.
It is a testament to the bonds of friendship, the power of music, and the importance of leading a Life of material simplicity, intellectual curiosity, and never-ending optimism.
A Century of Wisdom is the remarkable and inspiring story of one woman\'s lifelong determination--in the face of some of the worst evils known to man--to find goodness in life.
She credited music as the key to her survival, as well as her ability to acknowledge the humanity in each person, even her enemies.
Despite her imprisonment in Theresienstadt and the murders of her mother, husband, and friends by the Nazis, and much later the premature death of her son, Alice was victorious in her ability to live a Life without bitterness.
Until the end of her Life Alice, who lived in London, practiced piano for hours every day.
When Alice moved to Israel after the war, Golda Meir attended her house concerts, as did Arthur Rubinstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Isaac Stern.
As a child in Prague, she spent weekends and holidays in the company of Franz Kafka (whom she knew as "Uncle Franz"), and Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud, and Rainer Maria Rilke were friendly with her mother.
She had seen it all, surviving the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attending the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, and along the way coming into contact with some of the most fascinating historical figures of our time.
Before her death at 110, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer was an eyewitness to the entire last Century and the first decade of this one.
A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life--an inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism.
The subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world\'s Oldest Holocaust Survivor when she died on February 23, 2014
