A Virtual Book Talk: Escaping Extermination

The Wiener Holocaust Library was delighted to welcome Julia Neuberger, Rachel Polonsky, Mika Provata-Carlone and Robert Max. In this conversation, they discuss how music and art sustain the human and much more to mark the publication of this extraordinary memoir.

Agi Jambor was born in 1909 in Budapest, Hungary. A piano prodigy, she was playing Mozart before she could read, and at the age of twelve, made her debut with a symphony orchestra. After arriving in Baltimore, Maryland in 1947 in the wake of the Second World War, she became a professor of classical piano at Bryn Mawr College. After a life filled with intellectual and musical abundance, political activism and charity work, she died in 1997. This memoir, written shortly after the close of the Second World War and unpublished until now, is a story of hope, resilience, and even humour in the fight against evil.