Ashes to light : a Holocaust childhood to a life in music / Nelly Ben-Or.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ben-Or, Nelly, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ben-Or, Nelly.

Holocaust survivors--Poland--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Jewish musicians--Poland--Biography.

Jewish musicians.

Pianists--Poland--Biography.

Pianists.

Piano teachers--Poland--Biography.

Piano teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Other Title:

Holocaust childhood to a life in music

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2019.

Summary:

"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. Following her move to England she carried out a full concert career and also discovered the Alexander Technique for piano playing, which had a profound influence on her. Today Nelly Ben-Or is internationally regarded as the leading exponent of the application of principles of the Alexander Technique - she teaches in the keyboard department of London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, runs Alexander Technique masterclasses and regularly gives talks about her Holocaust experience. This unique memoir is testimony to an extraordinary life and illustrates the strength of the human condition when faced with adversity."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The war years

Poland 1945-50

Israel 1950-60

England from 1960.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-223) and index.

ISBN:

9781350985421

1350985422

9781786733818

1786733811

9781786723819

1786723816

OCLC:

1128175097