Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Dancing Under the Gallows

Alice Herz-Sommer. Concert pianist. 107 years old. Oldest Holocaust
survivor in the world. Theresienstadt Terezin concentration camp.



"Put as much as you can into your heads because that is something nobody can take away from you...you can actually have music in your head without anyone knowing it is happening. You can actually go into another world, which is a lot nicer than the world we're actually living in."

"I never hated, I never hate. Hatred brings only hatred...I was born with a very, very good optimist and this helps you. When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of our life, everybody loves you. Only when we are so old, only, we are aware of the beauty of life."

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