Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, while interned in the ghetto-town of Terezín, was forced to play piano as part of the Nazi-imposed cultural activities. Her abilities managed to save her and her son from the extermination camps but also had another consequence. Recounting those times, she mentions that “the Czechs and Poles were all fed by music – it was their bread and butter. We all felt if we had music, it couldn’t be so terrible.”
Once again, doof is food.
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