Czech Harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova, Survivor Of Auschwitz And Bringer Of The Instrument To New Audiences, Has Died At 90

Bach was her religion and her guide. When she “left the Nazi labour camp at Terezín in a truck bound for Auschwitz, she wrote down a passage from one of JS Bach’s English Suites ‘as a sort of talisman, because I didn’t know what was awaiting us.’ She came to think of his music as being ‘above human suffering.'”