Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the world’s oldest...

Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 110

_{Herz-Sommer, who was born in 1903 to a German Jewish family in Prague, was also an accomplished pianist. While held in Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp with her son and husband, she continued performing music until the camp’s liberation in May 1945 by Soviet troops. As a musician she was a part of the distinctive cultural community that developed over the course of the war in the Theresienstadt ghetto-concentration camp settlement. She was one of less than 20,000 people out of 140,000 to survive Theresienstadt, which served largely as an intermediate holding camp for prisoners who would be transported to camps like Dachau and Auschwitz.} 

_{Herz-Sommer is the subject of The Lady in Number 6, currently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).}