Aliza Sommer-Herz was born on November 26, 1903 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was married to Leopold Sommer. She died on February 23, 2014 in London, England, UK.
Before she passed away on Feburary 2014, she was the world's oldest Holocaust survivor at age 110.
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After the Soviet liberation of Theresienstadt in 1945, she and her son Raphael returned to Prague, and in March 1949 emigrated to Israel, to be reunited with some of her surviving family, including her twin sister, Mariana.
The song "Dancing Under the Gallows", by Chris While and Julie Matthews, from their 2014 album Who We Are, celebrates the life of Alice Herz-Sommer.
In July 1943 Herz was sent to Theresienstadt, where she played in more than 100 concerts along with other musicians, performing pieces by Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Schumann, and Chopin among other Czech composers for prisoners and guards.