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Ashes to Light - A Holocaust Childhood to a Life in Music (Paperback) Loot Price: R779
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Ashes to Light - A Holocaust Childhood to a Life in Music (Paperback): Nelly Ben-Or Mbe

Ashes to Light - A Holocaust Childhood to a Life in Music (Paperback)

Nelly Ben-Or Mbe

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Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early 1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust. This narrative of her life's journey describes the survival of Nelly, her mother and her older sister. With help from family and friends, Nelly and her mother were smuggled out of the Ghetto in Lvov and escaped to Warsaw with false identity papers where they were under constant threat of discovery. Miraculously, they survived being taken on a train to Auschwitz, deported not, in fact, because they were Jews, but as citizens of Warsaw following the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis. After the end of the war, Nelly's musical talent was free to flourish, at first in Poland and then in the recently-created State of Israel, where Nelly completed her musical studies as a scholarship student at the Music Academy in Jerusalem. Following her move to England she carried out a full concert career and also discovered the Alexander Technique for piano playing, which had a profound influence on her. Today Nelly Ben-Or is internationally regarded as the leading exponent of the application of principles of the Alexander Technique - she teaches in the keyboard department of London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, runs Alexander Technique masterclasses and regularly gives talks about her Holocaust experience. This unique memoir is testimony to an extraordinary life and illustrates the strength of the human condition when faced with adversity.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2021
Authors: Nelly Ben-Or Mbe
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-24160-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
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Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > Biography > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict > General
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
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LSN: 1-350-24160-1
Barcode: 9781350241602

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