The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ružicková, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. An inspiring and spirited account of a life spent living and breathing music, of finding beauty in world a of chaos and disorder.
Zuzana Ružicková was a celebrated Czech harpsichordist and a
survivor of three Nazi concentration and slave labour camps. She
recorded over one hundred albums, performed across the world to
great acclaim, and became an influential teacher at the Prague
Academy. Zuzana died in Prague in 2017 aged ninety.
Wendy Holden is the author of more than thirty published titles,
many of them about the lives of remarkable women. A journalist and
former war correspondent, she wrote Born Survivors, about three
mothers and their babies who survived the Holocaust. She lives in
Suffolk, England.
[An] extraordinary memoir … A moving record of a life well lived in
the face of appalling obstacles
*Sunday Times*
A compelling story of terrible suffering surmounted by incredible
bravery
*Daily Telegraph*
[Zuzana’s] humanity shines through all the inhumanity … Vivid and
moving
*The Jewish Chronicle*
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