Alice Herz-Sommer
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EDITORS AND LIBRARIANS PLEASE ELIMINATE THIS IMAGE FROM YOUR SYSTEMS AS PERMISSION FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TO USE THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER Photo dated July 2010 made available by the makers of the Oscar nominated documentary The Lady in Number 6, in which she tells her story, of 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. Herz-Sommer’s devotion to the piano and to her son sustained her through two years in a Nazi prison camp. (AP Photo/The Lady in Number 6, Bunbury Films)

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EDITORS AND LIBRARIANS PLEASE ELIMINATE THIS IMAGE FROM YOUR SYSTEMS AS PERMISSION FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TO USE THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER - Photo dated July 2010 made available by the makers of the Oscar nominated documentary The Lady in Number 6, in which she tells her story, of 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. Herz-Sommer’s devotion to the piano and to her son sustained her through two years in a Nazi prison camp. (AP Photo)

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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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RETRANSMITS TO ADD CREDIT IN SIGNOFF - Photo dated July 2010 made available by the makers of the Oscar nominated documentary The Lady in Number 6, in which she tells her story, of 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. Herz-Sommer’s devotion to the piano and to her son sustained her through two years in a Nazi prison camp. (AP Photo/The Lady in Number 6, Bunbury Films)

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RETRANSMITS TO ADD CREDIT IN SIGNOFF - Photo dated July 2010 made available by the makers of the Oscar nominated documentary The Lady in Number 6, in which she tells her story, of 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. Herz-Sommer’s devotion to the piano and to her son sustained her through two years in a Nazi prison camp. (AP Photo)

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RETRANSMITS TO ADD CREDIT IN SIGNOFF - Photo dated July 2010 made available by the makers of the Oscar nominated documentary The Lady in Number 6, in which she tells her story, of 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. Herz-Sommer’s devotion to the piano and to her son sustained her through two years in a Nazi prison camp. (AP Photo/The Lady in Number 6, Bunbury Films)

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Photo dated July 2010 made available by the makers of the Oscar nominated documentary The Lady in Number 6, in which she tells her story, of 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. Herz-Sommer’s devotion to the piano and to her son sustained her through two years in a Nazi prison camp. (AP Photo)

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Photo dated July 2010 made available by the makers of the Oscar nominated documentary The Lady in Number 6, in which she tells her story, of 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. Herz-Sommer’s devotion to the piano and to her son sustained her through two years in a Nazi prison camp. (AP Photo)