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...hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me." She had no idea how widely that support and comfort would extend, though her awareness of the power in her hands seemed to grow as time passed. One year before her death from typhus in the Bergen-Belsen camp, she wrote, "I want to be useful or give pleasure to people around me who yet don't really know me. I want to go on living even after my death...
...after the war was over, my mother married Otto Frank. They had both lost so much. She and I had survived Auschwitz. His life was a mess. He talked continuously of Anne. They had been very close. He had heard from friends about her last days in Bergen-Belsen--how she didn't think her parents had survived, how her sister Margot got typhus and died, and that Anne, thinking she was the only one left, just gave...
Sources: Tyndall Report, Hollywood Reporter, Nature, Bergen County Record, Justice Department
...addition to her work at Boston University, Sorensen has served as a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen in Norway...
Guest pianist Lief Ove Andsnes, however, captured much of the sincere passion of the piece with a dramatic enthusiasm that enraptured the audience. Born in Norway in 1970 and entering the Bergen Music Conservatory in 1986, Andsnes has gone on to perform with some of the most renowned orchestras and in some of the most prestigious music festivals in the world. Watching the music fluidly spill out of his hands, notes tumbling around the stage like small explosions of glitter, it becomes easy to understand how his success has reached the point that it has. The sprightly romance of Schumann...