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A Century of wisdom lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor

Stoessinger, Caroline more...

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Non Fiction
BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Imprint: Two Roads
Publication Date: 8/05/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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At 107 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer is the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, as well as the world's oldest concert pianist. An eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one, she has seen it all. Despite her years of imprisonment in Theresienstadt concentration camp and the murders of her mother, husband and friends at the hands of the Nazis, Alice is victorious in her ability to move on, to live each day in the present. She has wasted no time on bitterness toward her oppressors and the executioners of her family and instead lives every day as though it is a gift. A Kind of Prayer 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 bring good to the world, which has helped her to persevere and live a long and vital life.

'A Century of Wisdom is a stately and elegant book about an artist who found deliverance in her passion for music. Caroline Stoessinger writes with a special purity, as though she were arranging pearls on a string of silk.' -- Pat Conroy 'I have rarely read a Holocaust survivor's memoir as enriching and meaningful. Get Caroline Stoessinger's book, A Century of Wisdom, telling Alice Herz-Somer's tale of her struggles and triumphs. You will feel rewarded.' -- Elie Wiesel

Title: A Century of wisdom
Subtitle: lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
Contributors: By (author) Caroline Stoessinger

ISBN 13: 9781444737608
ISBN 10: 1444737600

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Imprint: Two Roads
Publication Date: 8/05/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography
NBS Classification: Autobiography: The Arts
Dewey Classification: 940.5318092 (DC23) ; 780.92 (DC22)

Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
Height: 224mm
Width: 144mm
Thickness: 25mm
Weight: 380g