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Author Müller, Melissa, 1967-

Title Alice's piano : the life of Alice Herz-Sommer / Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki ; foreword by Alice Herz-Sommer.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 HERZ-SOMMER    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY HERZ SOMMER    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. HERZ-SOMMER, A.    Storage
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B HERZ-SOMMER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  940.5318 MUL    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description xiv, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, music ; 25 cm
Note "Originally published in 2006 as Ein Garten Eden immitten der Hölle by Droemer Knaur, Munich" -- T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-335) and index.
Contents "The story of a miracle" / by Raphael Sommer -- Twins -- Roots -- World war -- Music -- Marriage -- Occupation -- Theresienstadt -- Happiness -- The Gates of Hell -- Inferno -- After the inferno -- Liberation -- Homecoming -- Prague -- Zena -- Jerusalem -- "Music takes us to paradise."
Subject Herz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia -- Personal narratives.
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Jewish musicians -- Czechoslovakia -- Biography.
Holocaust survivors -- Israel -- Biography.
Holocaust survivors -- England -- London -- Biography.
Women pianists -- Biography.
Pianists -- Biography.
Added Author Piechocki, Reinhard, 1949-
Added Title Alice Herz-Sommer, ein Garten Eden inmitten der Hölle. English
ISBN 9781250007414: $26.99
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