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Herz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014

LC control no.no2006126758
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LC classificationML417.H38 Biography
Personal name headingHerz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014
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Variant(s)Sommer, Alice Herz-, 1903-2014
Sommer Herz, Alice, 1903-2014
Herz, Alice Sommer, 1903-2014
Birth date19031126
Death date20140223
Place of birthPrague (Czech Republic)
Place of deathLondon (England)
AffiliationTheresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Profession or occupationPianists Holocaust survivors
Found inAlice Herz-Sommer, c2006: t.p. (Alice Herz-Sommer) jkt. (b. 1903 in Prague)
Jewish Music Institute website, Mar. 13, 2007: (concert pianist; b. in Prague, survived the Holocaust, moved to Israel and then moved to London)
We want the light [VR] 2004: container (Alice Sommer Herz, an inspiring survivor of a Nazi concentration camp)
New York times (online), viewed Feb. 28, 2014 (in obituary published Feb. 27: Alice Herz-Sommer; b. Alice Herz, Nov. 26, 1903, Prague; m. Leopold Sommer, 1931 (d. 1945); d. Sunday [Feb. 23, 2014], London, aged 110; considered the oldest known Holocaust survivor; had been a distinguished pianist in Europe before the war)