Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer – a life in pictures

2010: An Oscar-nominated documentary The Lady in Number 6, which tells the story of Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the oldest-known survivor of the Holocaust, who died in London on Sunday aged 110. Herz-Sommer's devotion to the piano and to her son Raphael, sustained her through her years in a Nazi concentration camp Photograph: AP

1915: Marianne and Alice Photograph: Chaim Adler

Alice and Rudolf Kraus, the love of her life, pictured in the 1920s Photograph: Alice Herz-Sommer

1920: Alice prepares to join the musical academy Photograph: Alice Herz-Sommer/Droemer-Knaur

1924: Alice makes her debut as a pianist Photograph: Archiv Reinhard Piechocki

1935: Leopold Sommer, Alice's husband Photograph: Archiv Reinhard Piechocki

1939: Alice Herz-Sommer with her son Stephan (later Raphael) Sommer before their internment in Theresienstadt concentration camp Photograph: Archiv Alice Herz-Sommer

1941: Stephan (back row, on the left) attends the jewish kindergarden in Prague Photograph: Archiv Alice Herz-Sommer

1944: Stephan appears in the play Brundibár for a Nazi propaganda film Photograph: Alice Herz-Sommer

1945: Alice and Stephan at their own piano Photograph: Archiv Alice Herz-Sommer

1947: Alice Herz-Sommer at a photoshoot for a concert Photograph: Archiv Mickie Gorinstein

1949: the reunited family in Israel: back row: Irma Weltsch with daughter Ruth; Emil Adler with son Heinz (Chaim), Felix Weltsch; front row: Stephan (Raphael), Alice and Marianne Photograph: Archiv Chaim Adler

Raphael and his mother Alice Herz-Sommer in Jerusalem Photograph: Archiv Chaim Adler

2006: Alice Herz-Sommer, at 103, concentration camp survivor and concert pianist Photograph: Eamonn McCabe for the Guardian

2010: Portrait of Alice Herz-Sommer at 106, at her flat in Belsize Park, London. Alice survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where she had to play the piano for the Nazis Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Observer