Alice Herz-Sommer: ‘Music was Our Food’

Alice Herz-Sommer discusses the impact of music on her life and how it helped sustain her through the Holocaust. Also hear her play Schubert’s Impromptu in B Flat. Herz-Sommer passed away on February 27, 2014 at the age of 110. The Holocaust was the mass extermination of Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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