At 108 years old the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to history. She has seen it all surviving the Theresienstadt concentration camp attending Eichmanns trial in Jerusalem & along the way coming into contact with some of the most fascinating historical figures of our time. As a child in Prague she spent weekends & holidays in the company of Franz Kafka & Gustav Mahler & Sigmund Freud & Rainer Maria Filke were friendly with her mother. When Alice moved to Israel after the war Golda Meir attended her house concerts as did Arthur Rubinstein Leonard Bernstein & Isaac Stern. Despite her years of imprisonment the murders of her mother husband & friends by the Nazis & much later the premature death of her son Alice has been victorious in her ability to live a life without bitterness. A CENTURY OF WISDOM is lessons from a remarkable & inspiring woman & evidence of her lifelong determination
- in the face of some of the worst evils known to man
- to find goodness in life.