I've just watched a fascinating documentary called, "The Lady in Number 6 - Music Saved My Life", on the subject of a lady I've previously posted about, Alice Herz Sommer. She was, until her death earlier this year aged 110, the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, a concert pianist, born in Prague, and during WW2 imprisoned with her young son in the Teresienstadt concentration camp She was a remarkable lady, despite everything she had been through, unfailingly optimistic and positive. The particular relevance to this list is that, as it mentions in the film, as a child she met Gustav Mahler, and must surely have been our last living link to him. I think this film is available on DVD but for what it may be worth, Sky Arts 2 in the UK are showing it at least another 3 times this week.
