{"id":12763,"date":"2014-03-03T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=12763"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:13:50","slug":"documentary-on-worlds-oldest-holocaust-survivor-wins-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/documentary-on-worlds-oldest-holocaust-survivor-wins-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary on world&#8217;s oldest Holocaust survivor wins Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 A documentary about the world\u2019s oldest Holocaust survivor won an Oscar one week after she died.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12766\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alice_Herz-Sommer_26.10.10._12-e1392329798739-1024x667.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12766\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12766 lazyload\" title=\"Alice_Herz-Sommer_26.10.10._12-e1392329798739-1024x667\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alice_Herz-Sommer_26.10.10._12-e1392329798739-1024x667-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alice_Herz-Sommer_26.10.10._12-e1392329798739-1024x667-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alice_Herz-Sommer_26.10.10._12-e1392329798739-1024x667.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/195;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12766\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12766 \" title=\"Alice_Herz-Sommer_26.10.10._12-e1392329798739-1024x667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alice_Herz-Sommer_26.10.10._12-e1392329798739-1024x667-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alice_Herz-Sommer_26.10.10._12-e1392329798739-1024x667-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alice_Herz-Sommer_26.10.10._12-e1392329798739-1024x667.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-12766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 38-minute film about Alice Herz-Sommer, who died on Feb. 23, won the Academy Award for best documentary short. (Polly Hancock)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alice Herz-Sommer, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2014\/02\/23\/news-opinion\/alice-herz-sommer-oldest-holocaust-survivor-and-subject-of-celebrated-documentary-dies-at-110\">died in London<\/a> on Feb. 23 at the age of 110, was the subject of \u201cThe Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life,\u201d which won the Academy Award for documentary short on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Prague-born Herz-Sommer, a concert pianist, was a prisoner in Theresienstadt.<\/p>\n<p>In accepting the Oscar, the film\u2019s director, Malcolm Clarke, said he was struck by Herz-Sommer\u2019s \u201cextraordinary capacity for joy\u201d and \u201camazing capacity for forgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Documentary%20on%20world%27s%20oldest%20Holocaust%20survivor%20wins%20Oscar\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5000,8794,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12765,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions\/12765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}