Pianist, Holocaust Figure. Born in Prague, which was then in Austria-Hungary, to Friedrich and Sofie Herz. Her father was a merchant and her mother was highly educated and moved in circles of well-known writers. Alice had a twin sister, Mariana, and two brothers. Her parents ran a cultural salon. Alice's older sister Irma taught her how to play the piano, which she studied diligently, and the pianist Artur Schnabel, a friend of the family, encouraged her to pursue a career as a classical musician. She went on to study under Václav Štěpán, and at the Prague German Conservatory of Music, where she was the youngest pupil. Alice married the businessman and amateur musician Leopold Sommer in 1931; the couple had a son, Stephan who would be later known as Raphael. She began giving concerts and making a name for herself across Europe until the Nazis took over Prague, as they did not allow Jews to perform in public, join music competitions or teach non-Jewish pupils. After the invasion of Czechoslovakia, most of her family and friends emigrated to Palestine via Romania, including Max Brod and brother-in-law Felix Weltsch, but Alice stayed in Prague to care for her ill mother, Sophie, aged 72, who was arrested and killed. In July 1943 Alice was sent to Theresienstadt, where she played in more than 100 concerts along with other musicians, for prisoners and guards. Her lodge was with her son during their time at the camp, he was one of only a few children to survive Theresienstadt. Her husband died of typhus in Dachau, six weeks before the camp was liberated. Alice and her son were later emigrated to Israel to be with the family she had remaining. Alice lived in Israel for nearly 40 years, working as a music teacher at the Jerusalem Academy of Music until emigrating to London in 1986. Her son Raphael, an accomplished cellist and conductor, died in 2001 at the age of 64 in Israel at the end of a concert tour. He was survived by his widow and two sons. A 2013 film about Alice's life, The Lady in Number 6, won the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. Alice was the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor she died in a hospital in London at the age of 110, after being admitted two days previously. Gigi as she was known to loved ones declared a firm belief in the power of music: "Music saved my life and music saves me still... I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion."