Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the oldest-known survivor of the Holocaust, who died in London on Sunday morning at the age of 110, pictured in this Aug. 2007 photo with Caroline Stoessinger who compiled Herz-Sommers' memories in a book, A Century of Wisdom. Born in 1903 Prague to a family of Jewish intellectuals and musicians, Alice Herz-Sommer socialised with the likes of Kafka and Brod. But in 1943, Alice, a prominent concert pianist, her husband and young son, were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp. (AP Photo/ Polly Handcock)
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