Alice Herz-Sommer

Alice Herz-Sommer
Born	26 November 1903 Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Died	23 February 2014(2014-02-23) (aged 110) London, England, United Kingdom
Cause of death	Natural causes
Occupation	Pianist
Spouse	Leopold Sommer ​ (m. 1931⁠–⁠1944)​ (his death)
Children	Raphael Sommer (dead)

Alice Herz-Sommer, also known as Alice Sommer (26 November 1903 – 23 February 2014), was a Czech-British music teacher and supercentenarian from Bohemia. She was a survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp and was the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor until Yisrael Kristal was recognized as such.

Herz was born in Prague, Austria-Hungary on 26 November 1903, along with her twin sister Mariana. She married the businessman and amateur musician Leopold Sommer in 1931. They had one son, Raphael Sommer. Leopold Sommer was later sent to Auschwitz. Although he survived the camp, he died at Dachau in 1944.

She lived in Israel and worked as a music teacher in Jerusalem. She then moved to Belsiza Park in London in 1986. Raphael Sommer, her only child, was a cellist and conductor. He died in 2001.

Herz-Sommer died on the morning of 23 February 2014 in London, England, from natural causes, aged 110.

Other websites

• "Life is beautiful", The Guardian, 13 December 2006
• "I look at the good", Haaretz, 21 January 2010
• "I played Chopin as they sent my family to their deaths" Archived 2012-04-11 at the Wayback Machine, Jewish Chronicle