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A Century of Wisdom Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor


Free Download A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor by Caroline Stoessinger, Linda Korn, Vaclav Havel – foreword
English | 2012 | ISBN: B007MI1PRU | Format: MP3 / 6 hours and 30 minutes | 179 Mb
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. A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life – an inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism.
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. 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.

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