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7. Ibid., 262.
8. Ibid., 263.
9. Eva Roubičková, Theresienstädter Tagebuch, 1944, Archives of the Theresienstadt Museum.
10. Miroslav Kárný, “Die Theresienstädter Herbsttransporte 1944” in Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente, 1995, 7.
11. Ibid., 8.
12. Ibid., 10.
13. Adler, 578–620.
14. Kárný, 7.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., 8.
17. Adler, 284.
18. Ibid.
19. Interview with Alice Herz-Sommer, 10 April 2003.
20. Manes, 426.
21. Interview with Edith Kraus, 19 January 2006.
22. Adler, 189.
23. Polák, 43; Manes, 428.
24. Manes, 430.
25. Kárný, 24.
26. Manes, 421.
27. Interview with Alice Herz-Sommer, 24 November 2003.
28. Ibid.
29. Interview with Jürgen Stenzel, 26 November 2003.
30. Fantlová, 118.
31. Ibid.
32. Kuna, 41.
33. Interview with Edith Kraus, 19 January 2006.
34. Fantlová, 114.
35. Interview with Alice Herz-Sommer, 10 April 2003.
36. Ibid.
37. Polák, 44.
38. Adler, 588.
39. Polák, 44; Kárný, 21.
40. Polák, 44.
41. Ibid.
ELEVEN: After the Inferno
1. Adler, 131–2; 403, 410, 435, 588.
2. Interview with Edith Kraus, 19 January 2006.
3. Adler, 191.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., 194.
6. Gerty Spiess, Drei Jahre Theresienstadt, Munich 1984.
7. Karas, 171.
8. Adler, 194.
9. Handwritten review in the possession of Alice Herz-Sommer.
10. Niecks, 322.
11. Adler, 196.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Robert Schumann, quoted by Koczalski, 95.
15. Zielinsky, 463.
16. Fantlová, 116.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., 119.
19. Brenner-Wonschick, 96.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid., 369.
22. Norbert Frýd, “Kultur im Wohnzimmer der Hölle” in Theresienstadt, 1968, 228.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Thomas Pehlken in www.magazin.klassik.com under Meisterwerke, Chopin-Etuden.
26. Adler, 198.
27. Fuchs, 329–31.
28. Ibid., 331.
29. Arnošt Weiss, “Musikleben in Theresienstadt” in Theresienstadt, 333.
30. Ibid., 247.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid., 248.
33. Koczalski, 124.
34. Lauscherová, 99 and 110.
35. Bernhard Garóty, Chopin, Eine Biographie, Hamburg 1990, 469.
36. Schultz, 1993.
37. Willy Haas, Die literarische Welt. Lebenserinnerungen, Munich 1957, 171–6.
38. Ibid., 173.
39. Ibid., 174.
40. Zielinski, 473.
TWELVE: Liberation
1. Transport AE3 of 11 February 1945, according to the memorial book for Czech deportees, Vol. II, 1298.
2. Polák, 46; Weiss, 332.
3. Polák, 45.
4. Lauscherová, 110.
5. Adler, 198.
6. Polák, 47.
7. Adler, 588.
8. Karas, 174.
9. Kuna, 214.
10. Adler, 199.
11. Ibid., 212.
12. Ibid., 213.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid., 214.
THIRTEEN: Homecoming
1. Reuven Assor, “Deutsche Juden in der Tschechoslovakei 1945–1948” in Sudetenland 33, 1992, 162.
2. Ibid.
3. The Czech exile newspaper Československé Listy. Quoted in idem, 163.
4. Karel Lagus, “Vorspiel” in Theresienstadt, 1968, 20.
FOURTEEN: Prague
1. Lauscherová, 97.
2. Interview with Pavel Fuchs, 12 March 2006.
3. Jana Svoboda, “Erscheinungsformen des Antisemitismus in den böhmischen Ländern 1948–1992” in Hoensch, 1999, 229.
4. Beaumont, 423.
5. Assor, 162–8.
6. Ibid., 164.
7. Interview with Zdenka Fantlová, 26 November 2003.
8. Svoboda, 232–3.
9. Ruth Weltsch to Felix Weltsch, 4 January 1949 in German Literature Archive Marbach: Weltsch, Sign. 94. 72. 19/2.
10. Ibid.
11. Ruth to Felix Weltsch, 25 January 1949 in German Literature Archive Marbach: Weltsch, Sign. 94. 72. 19/4.
FIFTEEN: Zena
1. Svoboda, 229–48.
2. Martin Hauser, Wege jüdischer Selbstbehauptung, Bonn 1992, 269.
3. Interview with Chaim Adler, 12 May 2006.
4. Ruth Weltsch to Felix Weltsch 4 January 1949 in German Literature Archive Marbach: Weltsch, Sign. 94:72.19/2.
Acknowledgments
Many people have made generous contributions to this book. We would like to thank the following for their patience and for informative answers to our questions as well as their ability to direct us to sources and giving us a critical appraisal of various sections and chapters:
In Great Britain: Zdenka Fantlová, Anita Lasker-Walfisch, Arnold Paucker, Ariel Sommer, David Sommer, Geneviève Teulières-Sommer, Amos Witztum.
In Israel: Chaim Adler, Esther Friedmann, Mickie and Eli Gorenstein, Greta Klingsberg, Uri Weltsch.
In the Czech Republic: Vojtěch Blodig, Tomáš Federovič, Anna Flachová, Anita Franková, Jana Šplichalova from the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Theresienstadt Memorial.
In the USA and Canada: Pavel Fuchs, Joža Karas, Paul Kling, Herbert T. Mandl.
In Austria: Leopold Aschenbrenner, Nikolaus Brandstätter.
In Finland: Georg Gimpl.
In Germany: Volker Ahmels, Wieland Berg, Hartmut Binder, Peter Bohley, Renate Flachmeyer, Raphaela Haberkorn, Thomas Klapperstück, Wolfgang Witiko Marko, Carsten Schmidt, Ingo Schultz, Jürgen Stenzel, Christa Stünkel, Brunhild Piechocki, Klaus Wagenbach, Norbert Wiersbinski and the staff of the German Literature Archive in Marbach.
In Belgium: Daniela Weingärtner.
It is not enough to thank Alice Herz-Sommer. She has inspired and followed this project with youthful curiosity and stamina, an amazing memory and a rare humor. Our conversations with her have made our lives so much the richer.
Index
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Adler, Chaim (Heinz; Marianne’s son)
Hebrew name adopted by
Adler, Emil (Marianne’s husband)
death of
emigration of
marriage of
Adler, Hans Günther
Adler, Marianne “Mizzi” (née Herz; Alice’s twin sister)
birth of
death of
emigration of
essay of
marriage of
pet-name of
Ančerl, Karel
Ansorge, Conrad
Aronson-Lindt, Hilde
Assor, Reuven
Auschwitz
Autonomous Jewish Administration
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Concerto in E Minor
Partita in B flat major
Well-tempered Clavier
Backhaus, Wilhelm
Baeck, Leo
Bartels, Ludwig August
Baum, Oskar
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Appassionata
Opus 110 Sonata
Sonata in A flat major
Sonata in D major
Belgium
Beneš, Edvard
Ben-Gurion, David
Berg, Alban
Bergen-Belsen
Berman, Karel
Billroth, Theodor
Blech, Leo
Bloch, Felix
Boronow, Ernst
Brahms, Johannes
Brailowsky, Alexander
Breslau
Brock, Robert
Brod, Max
Brundibár
Brussels
Buchenwald
Burckhardt, Carl Jacob
Burger, Anton
Burian, Emil František
Busoni, Ferruccio
Casals, Pablo
Casals Competition
Chopin, Frédéric
B minor Scherzo
E minor Concerto
Études
Revolutionary Study
Stuttgart Sketches
Cohn, Harry
Cortot, Alfred
Council of Elders
Dachau
De la Pau, Maria
Dunant, Paul
Dvořák, Antonín
Eckstein, Hannah
Edelstein, Jakob
Egypt
Eichmann, Adolf
Eigenfeld, Katrin
Eppstein, Paul
Erle, Esther
Fantlová, Zdenka
Fischl, Viktor
Flachová, Anna
Forkel, Johann Nikolaus
Franta
Free Time Organization (FZG)
Freudenfeld, Otto
Freudenfeld, Rudolf
Frey, Anni
Frey, Kurt
Fritta, Bedřich
Fröhlich, Karel
Fuchs, Pavel
Fuchs, Valery
Furtwängler, Wilhelm
Garrigue, Charlotte
Gärtner-Geiringer, Renée
German Academy for Music and Drama
Gerron, Kurt
Gibian, Richard
Gobets, Machiel
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gorenstein, Benjamin
Gottwald, Klement
Grab-Kernmeyer, Hedda
Gräfenberg
Günther, Hans
Gutmann, Adolf
Haas, Jóši
Haas, Leo
Haas, Pavel
Hába, Alois
Hácha, Emil
Handel, George Frideric
Hanusová-Flachová, Anna
Hausner, Gideon
Heller, Stephan
Henschel, Moritz
Herschl, David
Herz, Friedrich (Alice’s father)
death of
health problems of
home of
marriage of
World War I and
Herz, Georg (Alice’s brother)
Herz, Irma, see Weltsch, Irma
Herz, Karl (Friedrich’s brother)
Herz, Marianne “Mizzi,” see Adler, Marianne “Mizzi”
Herz, Mary (Paul’s wife)
Herz, Paul (Alice’s brother)
gambling den run by
marriage of
in Theresienstadt
as violinist
Herz, Sofie (Alice’s mother)
deportation of
Felix Weltsch and
health problems of
Leopold Sommer and
marriage of
World War I and
Herz-Sommer, Alice:
apartment of, after Theresienstadt
apartment bought in Israel
birth of
citizenship of
daily routine of
emigration to Israel
Hebrew learned by
illnesses of
at Jerusalem Conservatory
marriage of
in master class
move to London
open houses held by
pet-name for
radio concert of
Rudolfinum concert of
Stockholm concert of
as teacher
in Theresienstadt, see Theresienstadt
Heydrich, Reinhard
Himmler, Heinrich
Hitler, Adolf
Hofmeister, Greta
Holitscher, Anna
Hötzendorf, Conrad von
Huneker, James
Hutter, Klara
Hutter, Trude
Iglau
International Red Cross
Israel
Alice’s emigration to
in wars
Janáček, Leos
Janegro, Antonio
Jerusalem Conservatory
Jewish Cultural Union
Joseph II, Emperor
Kaff, Bernhard
Kafka, Franz
Kaiser, Joachim
Kalicz, Jenö
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
Kant, Immanuel
Karafiát, Jan
Kersten, Felix
Kettner, Gisela
Kien, Peter
Klanovice
Klein, Gideon
Klemperer, Daisy
Koczalski, Raoul von
Kohn, Erich
Kohn brothers
Kopecký, Václav
Krása, Hans
Kraus, Edith
return to Prague
in Theresienstadt
Kraus, Rudolf
Kraus, Trude
Kurz, Wilhelm
Laber, Louis
Landowska, Wanda
Lasker-Walfisch, Anita
Lauscherová, Irma
Leydensdorff, Herman
Liszt, Franz
Little Glow-Worm, The
London
Lössl, Margarete
Löw, Rabbi
Mahler, Alma
Mahler, Bernhard
Mahler, Gustav
Mahler, Marie
Mahler, Willy
Mandl, Herbert Thomas
Mandl, Thomas
Mareš, Michael
Maria Theresa, Empress
Mark, Fredy
Marteau, Henry
Martin, Maud
Martinů, Bohuslav
Masaryk, Charlotte Garrigue
Masaryk, Jan
Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue
Mautner, Edith
Mautner, Felix
Mautner, Ilse
Mautner, Thomas
Mendelssohn, Felix
Mengele, Josef
Meyer, Kurt
Mikuli, Carl
Möhs, Ernst
Müller, Melissa
Mühlstein, Maria
Mühlstein, Pinta
Murmelstein, Benjamin
Nettl, Paul
Niemann, Walter
Novák, Vítěslav
Eroica Sonata
Orenstein, Zdeněk
Orlik, Emil
Ostrčil, Otakar
Ott, Sylvie
Palestine
Paris Conservatory
Passover
Patent of Tolerance
Pehlken, Thomas
Piatigorsky, Gregor
Piatigorsky Competition
Pick, Rudolf
Piechocki, Reinhard
Pimentel, Beatrice
Podelier, Marion
Polack, Maria
Polák, Josef
Poland
Prague
Alice and Stephan’s return to
Alice’s departure from
Alice’s solo concerts in
German occupation of
Jewish Community office in
riots in
Prague Circle
Prague Conservatory
Pravazniková, Marie
Rahm, Karl
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)
Reinhold, Joseph
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rosenbaum, Kamilla
Rosenthal, Moriz
Roubičková, Eva
Rubinstein, Arthur
Rûžičková,
Zuzana
Sachsel, Robert
Sádlo, Pravoslav
Sattler, Otto
Sauer, Emil
Schächter, Rafael
Schnabel, Arthur
Schoenová, Vlasta
Schönberg, Arnold
Schorsch, Gustav
Schreker, Franz
Schubert, Franz
Schulz, Fanny (Alice’s grandmother)
Schulz, Ignatz (Alice’s grandfather)
Schulz, Otto
Schumann, Clara
Schumann, Robert
Abegg Variations
Fantasy in C major
Symphonic Studies
Träumerei
Schwarz-Klein, Ada
Serkin, Rudolf
Short, Tony
Singer, Kurt
Six Day War
Smetana, Bedřich
Sommer, Ariel (Raphael’s son)
Sommer, David (Raphael’s son)
Sommer, Eva (Hans’ daughter)
Sommer, Geneviève (Raphael’s second wife)
Sommer, Hans (Leopold’s brother)
Sommer, Helene (Leopold’s mother)
Sommer, Leopold (Alice’s husband)
Alice’s marriage to
Alice’s meeting of
in Auschwitz and Dachau
death of
deportation of
letter to Trude Hutter from
in Theresienstadt
transported out of Theresienstadt
Sommer, Otto (Hans’ son)
Sommer, Raphael (Stephan; Alice’s son)
army service of
bar mitzvah of
birth of
as cellist
death of
deportation of
eighth birthday of
emigration to Israel
Hebrew name adopted by
illness of
marriage to Sylvie
musical talent of
in music competitions
at Paris Conservatory
radio programs of
schooling of
sixth birthday of
in Theresienstadt
Tortelier and
Sommer, Sylvie (née Ott; Raphael’s first wife)
Sommer, Zdenka (Hans’ wife)
Spiess, Gerty
Starke, Käthe
Štěpán, Václav
death of
Štěpánova, Ilonka
Steuermann, Eduard
Stifter, Adalbert
Stravinsky, Igor
Suez Canal
Suk, Josef
Süssmann, Romuald
Švenk, Karel
Taube, Carlo
Taube, Erika
Taussig, Elsa
Thein, Hanuš
Theresienstadt (Terezín)
Alice in
Alice, Leopold and Stephan deported to
Alice’s concerts at
artists at
Brundibár staged at
building of
deaths at
film team at
gas chamber planned for
Leopold in
Leopold transported out of
Little Glow-Worm staged at
mica workshops at
Paul in
prisoners transported out of
Red Cross visits to
Sofie’s deportation to
Stephan in
transfer of prisoners out of
Thieberger, Friedrich