Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903Pragueto a family that moved in circles of well-known artists and writers, including Gustav Mahler, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig and Franz Kafka. Prior to World War II,Alicewas well on her way to a distinguished career as a concert pianist in centralEurope. But in January 1942, Alice, her husband and her 5-year-old son were deported to Theresienstadt, a Nazi labor camp from which a mere 17,500 of the 156,000 Jews imprisoned there would survive. When Theresienstadt was liberated,Alicereturned toPraguewith her son, only to discover strangers living in her apartment. Finding no one from her past, she decided - at age 45 - to immigrate toIsrael, where she would reunite with her brother and sisters.Alicelearned Hebrew and supported herself and her son by teaching at the Conservatory of the Jerusalem Academy of Music. Max Brod, leonard Bernstein, Golda Meir, Daniel Barenboim and others were frequent guests at her home. At 87 years old, she traded countries once again, moving toLondon, where she continues to play piano and entertain notable musicians at her home.

 Despite her years of imprisonment in Theresienstadt and the murders of her mother, husband and friends at the hands of the Nazis,Alicehas wasted no time on bitterness. Aware that hatred eats the soul of the hater rather than the hated,Alicereasons, 'I am still grateful for life. Life is a present.' Alice's Worldis a testament to the power of music and the story of one woman's lifelong determination - in the face of some of the worst evils known to man - to bring good to the world.