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Author Stoessinger, Caroline.

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

Publication Info. New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY HERZ SOMMER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  940.5318 STO    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B HERZ-SOMMER, A.    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B HERZ-SOMMER ALICE S    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxi, 232 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232).
Summary Collects life lessons by a Holocaust survivor and concert pianist, sharing the wisdom she has gleaned and insights into her resolve to thrive in spite of loss and her choice to harbor no bitterness toward her oppressors.
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.
Subject Herz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014.
Jews -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- Biography.
Women pianists -- Biography.
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors -- Israel -- Biography.
Holocaust survivors -- England -- London -- Biography.
Prague (Czech Republic) -- Biography.
ISBN 9780812992816 trade alkaline paper
0812992814 trade alkaline paper
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