Ashes to light : a holocaust childhood to a life in music
Ben-Or, Nelly2018
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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.
Main title:
Ashes to light : a holocaust childhood to a life in music / Nelly Ben-Or.
Author:
Ben-Or, Nelly, author
Imprint:
London : I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Collation:
224 pages
ISBN:
9781788313094 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
786.2092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
264673