Alice's piano
Subtitle: the life of Alice Herz-Sommer
By: Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki ; foreword by Alice Herz-Sommer
Contributors: Piechocki, Reinhard, 1949-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781250007414
Subjects: Jewish musicians; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Biography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Personal narratives; Holocaust survivors; Pianists
Work titles: Alice Herz-Sommer
Description: Chronicles the life of the oldest living Holocaust survivor, a classically trained pianist who used her love of music to provide hope to her fellow sufferers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Notes: Previously published in English: London : Macmillan, 2007, under title: A garden of Eden in Hell : the life of Alice Herz-Sommer.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-335) and index.

Translation of: Alice Herz-Sommer : "ein Garten Eden inmitten der Hölle."
Table of contents: title: "The story of a miracle" / by Raphael Sommer; title: Twins; title: Roots; title: World war; title: Music; title: Marriage; title: Occupation; title: Theresienstadt; title: Happiness; title: The gates of Hell; title: Inferno; title: After the inferno; title: Liberation; title: Homecoming; title: Prague; title: Zena; title: Jerusalem; title: "Music takes us to paradise."