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Jessica Duchen
Sunday 31st October 2010
'Alice Dancing Under the Gallows'
A new documentary about the remarkable Alice Sommer Herz is coming out early next year. Alice, the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, is about to celebrate her 107th birthday. "Music is God," she says. And after her experiences at the extremities of human nature, you know she is right. Please watch the trailer. (Her friend Anita, also interviewed in the film, is the cellist Anita Lasker Wallfisch.)
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About Jessica Duchen
Jessica Duchen is a music journalist and the author of four novels, two biographies and several stage works. She writes regularly for The Independent and BBC Music Magazine. Her latest novel, Songs of Triumphant Love, is published by Hodder.
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