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a garden of eden in hell the life of alice herz sommer
alice herz sommer was born in 1903 in prague the prague of the hapsburgs and of franz kafka a family friend . musically very gifted by her mid teens alice was one of the best known pianists in prague . but as the nazis swept across europe her comfortable bourgeois world began to crumble around her as anti jewish feeling not only intensified but was legitimized . in 1942 alices mother was deported . desperately unhappy she resolved to learn chopins 24 etudes the most technically demanding piano pieces she knew and the complex but beautiful music saved her sanity . a year later she too together with her husband and their six year old son was deported to a concentration camp . but even in theresienstadt music was her salvation and in the course of more than 100 concerts she gave her fellow prisoners hope in a world of pain and death . this is her remarkable story but it is also the story of a mothers struggle to create a happy childhood for her beloved only son in the midst of atrocity and barbarism . of 15000 children sent to the camp raphael was one of the 130 who survived . today alice herz sommer lives in london and she still plays the piano every day .