And the Oscar goes to ….. “The Lady in Number 6“!
March 3, 2014 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Free and Laughing, Love
What joy to celebrate the life of my dear friend, Alice Herz-Sommer, along with the rest of the world! For last night, the documentary on her life “The Lady in Number 6: How Music Saved My Life” won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. I have written about Alice in previous blogposts, as she is […]
How does one live to be 109 years old?
October 3, 2013 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Love
My friend, Alice Herz-Sommer knows how. She’s my friend, even though I have never met her. For whenever I see her photograph or a YouTube clip I feel a connection born out of our shared love of life, of laughter, of living. She is exactly who I want to be when I “grow up”. I blogged about Alice […]
“It’s not so terrible after all” – how to live like Alice
November 8, 2010 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Free and Laughing, Love
A friend shared with me a video clip “Alice Dancing Under the Gallows” of 106 year old Alice Herz-Sommer. Alice is the oldest living Holocaust survivor. She credits her survival of the Holocaust to her music, as she was sent to a special camp – a “purgatory for artists and musicians”. “I used to play […]
