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Millions and millions of hours working on what you love. When you love something, work and work and work and work and work. >> Herz- Sommer was the oldest known survivor of the holocaust. She grew up in Prague. Composer Gustav Mahler was a family friend. The novelist Franz Kafka she knew in childhood. Art was everything to her. >> Music is a dream. Music is a dream. >> In 1943, she was imprisoned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp with her young son. Her mother and her husband were sent to Auschwitz. Neither survived the end of the war. She said music kept her alive, one of dozens of musicians that performed concerts in the camp to entertain the Nazi's. >> I knew that we will play. And I was thinking, when we can play it can't be so terrible. The music, the music, music is in the first place of art. It brings us on an island, there's peace, beauty and love. >> But what made Alice Herz- Sommer so remarkable was not only how she survived the horrors of the holocaust but also how she transformed her life and so many others with the power of music and laughter. >> I'm full of joy in my house for instance; I am the only one who is laughing. >> Alice Herz- Sommer died on Sunday with her family at her bedside. 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