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Author Stoessinger, Caroline.

Title A century of wisdom [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor / Caroline Stoessinger.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2012.
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 232 pages)
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.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Title Lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
Other Form: Print version: Stoessinger, Caroline. Century of wisdom. 1st ed. New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2012 9780812992816 (DLC) 2011035168 (OCoLC)738339367
ISBN 9780679644019 (electronic bk.)
0679644016 (electronic bk.)
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