Oldest Holocaust survivor dies aged 110

Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest survivor of the Holocaust, has died at the age of 110.

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Alice Herz-Sommer.

The world's oldest known Holocaust survivor has died aged 110, her family says.

Alice Herz-Sommer, who lived in London and was originally from Prague, had been confined in the camp in Terezin in Germany during the Second World War.

Herz-Sommer was a talented musician and an adept pianist.

She is said to have counted esteemed existentialist writer Franz Kafka among her family friends and, more recently, was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary about her life.

The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life, a 38-minute film, is up for best short documentary at the Academy Awards to be handed out next weekend.

"Alice Sommer passed away peacefully this morning with her family by her bedside," her granddaughter, Ariel Sommer, said.

"Much has been written about her, but to those of us who knew her best, she was our dear Gigi.

"She loved us, laughed with us, and cherished music with us.

"She was an inspiration and our world will be significantly poorer without her by our side. We mourn her loss and ask for privacy in this very difficult moment."


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