Ashes to Light: A Holocaust Childhood to 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…
Book
$23.75Printed on demand
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