(JTA) — A documentary about the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor won an Oscar one week after she died.
Alice Herz-Sommer, who died in London on Feb. 23 at the age of 110, was the subject of “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life,” which won the Academy Award for documentary short on Sunday night.
The Prague-born Herz-Sommer, a concert pianist, was a prisoner in Theresienstadt.
In accepting the Oscar, the film’s director, Malcolm Clarke, said he was struck by Herz-Sommer’s “extraordinary capacity for joy” and “amazing capacity for forgiveness.”
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