Really amazing story of survival, very emotional
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Grind, I guess you really are a soulless curmudgeon.
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The Lady in Number 6 is one of the most inspirational stories ever told. 109 year old, Alice Herz Sommer, the world's oldest pianist and oldest holocaust survivor, shares her views on how to live a long happy life. She discusses the vital importance of music, laughter and having an optimistic outlook on life. This powerfully inspirational video tells her amazing story of survival and how she managed to use her time in a Nazi concentration camp to empower herself and others with music. See the entire documentary at:
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If you want to task about a real war on women then read this story, it might make you realise what a pampered and safe life you lead in comparison with the hell of somewhere like Nazi Germany.
Bubbling with excitement, the six-year-old boy could hardly wait to tell his mother what he’d been doing. ‘I was in a film today,’ Stephan cried. ‘There were spotlights and big cameras!’ Stephan’s news was indeed remarkable. Together with his parents — concert pianist Alice Herz-Sommer and her husband Leopold — he was an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp; so the last place on Earth anyone might expect to find a film crew. As Alice herself later recalled, hundreds were dying each day at Theresienstadt camp from disease and malnutrition. Corpses would be piled onto wagons, their limbs hanging out for all to see.
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The life they lost: Alice and her son before their removal to an internment camp
Meanwhile, regular trainloads of new arrivals were accommodated by the devastating expedient of shipping thousands of inmates to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Yet while all this was going on, Theresienstadt — just 60 kilometres from Prague in Czechoslovakia — was being touted by the Nazis as a ‘show camp’, and continued to be advertised as a place where Jews might find a welcome haven. Indeed, a few deluded souls had actually applied for admission, paying extra for a room with a view. Needless to say, there was no view — and their money and jewellery were confiscated on arrival.
Alice, however, had never been under any such illusions. When she learned that the Nazis had despatched a film unit to Theresienstadt, she suspected immediately that they were embarking on a cynical propaganda exercise. She was, of course, right. Knowing he’d be killed if he disobeyed, a distinguished director had agreed to make it appear as if the inmates were having the time of their lives, sitting out the war in a delightful spa that catered to their every need.
Bubbling with excitement, the six-year-old boy could hardly wait to tell his mother what he’d been doing. ‘I was in a film today,’ Stephan cried. ‘There were spotlights and big cameras!’ Stephan’s news was indeed remarkable. Together with his parents — concert pianist Alice Herz-Sommer and her husband Leopold — he was an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp; so the last place on Earth anyone might expect to find a film crew. As Alice herself later recalled, hundreds were dying each day at Theresienstadt camp from disease and malnutrition. Corpses would be piled onto wagons, their limbs hanging out for all to see.
The life they lost: Alice and her son before their removal to an internment camp
Meanwhile, regular trainloads of new arrivals were accommodated by the devastating expedient of shipping thousands of inmates to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Yet while all this was going on, Theresienstadt — just 60 kilometres from Prague in Czechoslovakia — was being touted by the Nazis as a ‘show camp’, and continued to be advertised as a place where Jews might find a welcome haven. Indeed, a few deluded souls had actually applied for admission, paying extra for a room with a view. Needless to say, there was no view — and their money and jewellery were confiscated on arrival.
Alice, however, had never been under any such illusions. When she learned that the Nazis had despatched a film unit to Theresienstadt, she suspected immediately that they were embarking on a cynical propaganda exercise. She was, of course, right. Knowing he’d be killed if he disobeyed, a distinguished director had agreed to make it appear as if the inmates were having the time of their lives, sitting out the war in a delightful spa that catered to their every need.