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Ashes to Light: A Holocaust Childhood and a Life in Music

  • Author: Ben-Or, Nelly
Nelly Ben-Or offers her own life experiences in this unique memoir which is testimony to an extraordinary life and illustrates the strength of the human condition when faced with adversity ...... More…

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Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • PART I : THE WAR YEARS 1 September 1939 - Nazis invade Poland Beginnings of the Nightmare In the ghetto and escape Continuous hiding Warsaw A brief haven of peace Trembacka Street, Warsaw Warsaw Uprising Proszkow - semi-freedom The last winter of the war
  • PART II : JOURNEYS THROUGH LIFE
  • 13. Fulfilment through Learning
  • 14. New influences - literature
  • 15. Jasia, Poldi, Julian
  • 16. To the promised land - Israel
  • 17. Henrietta Michaelson and the Jerusalem Music Academy
  • 18. The Mozart competition and public concerts
  • 19. Marriage to Gabi Ben-Or
  • 20. Death of Henrietta
  • PART III : ENGLAND FROM 1960
  • 21. London - the Alexander Technique
  • 22. Shadows from the Past - inner illness
  • 23. Married to Roger Clynes
  • 24. Various journeys
  • 25. Reflections
  • Appendices