I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times — including my husband, my mother and my beloved son. Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.
— Alice Herz-Sommer
During World War II, Czech-born Jewish classical pianist Alice Herz-Sommer performed for her Nazi Germans captors in the Theresienstadt (English, Terezin) Jewish ghetto.
"As long as they wanted music, they couldn't put us in the gas chambers."
Watch Dancing Under the Gallows (12:10 minutes).
(Note: Keeping an open heart recalls Emmett Till's mother who, immediately following the racially motivated murder of her son, Emmett (1941-1955), in the Mississippi Delta, demanded that the U.S. federal authorities return her 14-year-old son's mutilated body to his hometown, Chicago, and placed in an open coffin on public view. The bereaved Mamie Till, who forced the nation to look at the horror of racism, years later said: "'I have not spent one minute hating.'')
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