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A Hundred years of Knowledge is an inspiring history of resilience and the energy of optimism - the real history of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor. At 108 years of age, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to the whole last century and the first decade of the one. She's seen it all, surviving the Theresienstadt attentiveness camp, participating in the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, and on the way coming into contact with a few of the most fascinating historical statistics of your time. As a child in Prague, she put in weekends and holiday seasons in the company of Franz Kafka (whom she understood as "Uncle Franz"), and Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud, and Rainer Maria Rilke were friendly with her mother. When Alice shifted to Israel after the warfare, Golda Meir went to her house concerts, as do Arthur Rubinstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Isaac Stern. Today Alice lives in London, where she still routines piano for hours every day. Despite her imprisonment in Theresienstadt and the murders of her mother, hubby, and friends by the Nazis, and much later the early death of her son, Alice has been victorious in her capacity to live on a life without bitterness. She credits music as the main element to her success, as well as her capacity to acknowledge the mankind in each person, even her enemies. A Hundred years of Knowledge is the amazing and inspiring history of 1 woman's lifelong determination - in the face of some of the most detrimental evils that you can buy - to find goodness in life. It is a testament to the bonds of a friendly relationship, the energy of music, and the importance of leading a life of materials simplicity, intellectual attention, and never-ending optimism.
