by Sue Corbett
Her son adopted the name of Raphael in Israel and later studied cello, becoming an international virtuoso. In 1986, after her retirement, Herz-Sommer moved to London where her son and his family had settled. Raphael Sommer died suddenly of a heart attack during a concert tour of Israel in 2001. She was 99 and the grief nearly killed her.
In her declining years she liked to receive visitors in the afternoon. To leave herself more time for the important things in life, she had reduced her diet to a daily bowl of chicken soup prepared fresh once a week.
She is survived by her grandsons, David Sommer and Ariel Sommer, and her son Raphael’s widow Genevieve.
Alice Herz-Sommer, Holocaust survivor and concert pianist, was born on November 26, 1903. She died on February 23, 2014, aged 110
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