Alice Herz-Sommers in an accomplished pianist and author at the age of 108, but she is also a Holocaust survivor. There is not much one can say about the experience of being a Holocaust victim without inciting unimaginable dread, but Alice has a very different take on her experience. She says that throughout her time in the concentration camps, she always smiled, looking only where there is good.
She expresses gratitude for absolutely everything, even her time as a detainee. Does she hate her former captors? Her answer is no.
"Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated."
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