Hiding in the Spotlight : : a Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946
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The author relates the remarkable story of his pianist mother, a child prodigy who escaped certain death when the Nazis invaded Ukraine, adopted a new identity, and came under the protection of a Nazi commander who heard her play.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Pegasus Books, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 278 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781605980454
1605980455
SUBJECTS
Arshanskaya, Zhanna -- Childhood and youth.
Pianists -- Biography.
Gifted children -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Ukraine -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Ukraine -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Biography.