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Zuzana Ruzickova became a world-famous harpsichordist and interpreter of Bach after surviving three concentration camps | dG1fZWlicFdlb0V4V00
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00:00If you have a nice childhood, nothing really can spoil your life.
00:11I was so wrapped up in my music that I really didn't care what happened in politics, which
00:16was a great mistake, of course.
00:18When you were 14, you had no idea what life was like.
00:23We were transported into a barracks that day came for us to go to the gas chambers.
00:35When people ask me how I could survive, I always say it was a hundred miracles.
00:49We are again in the dictatorship, and I thought, this must be a joke.
00:55It was oppressive.
01:05She was just so good.
01:08She didn't let the communist regime take over her life.
01:13Zuzana was one of the people living legends of the 20th century.
01:20She also formed the view of the Czechoslovakian country in the world.
01:26She quite often said that it was music by Bach, which kept her alive.
01:32You always feel in his music that God is present somehow.
01:38You fall in love with music and you never fall out of love with music.
02:05She was in love with music.
02:06She was in love with music.
02:07She was in love with music.
02:08She was in love with music.
02:09She was in love with music.
02:10She was in love with music.
02:11She was in love with music.
02:12There's a ferocity of personality.
02:16She communicated to me that I have to ask myself a very uncomfortable question.
02:21Which is, are you really made for this?
02:24It's not enough to be gifted, to be diligent.
02:30You have to be a little bit crazy.
02:36My father, when he was dying, said, don't hate.
02:41Hate is something that poisons your soul.
02:46Leave the revenge to God.
02:49When will you stay alive?
03:01Imagine seeing the truth in many prisons.
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