Natalia Karp

Pianist

Birthday February 27, 1911

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Poland

DEATH DATE Jul 9, 2007 (96)

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About

Concert musician and Holocaust survivor who had a successful performing career well into her nineties.

Before Fame

She and her sister were spared from death in the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp after she impressed Nazi commandant Amon Göth with her interpretation of Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor.

Trivia

She gained political asylum in London after the war and eventually joined the Krakow Philharmonic. She once gave a concert honoring Oskar Schindler, the savior of many Jews

Family Life

Her first husband, lawyer Julius Hubler, did not approve of her performing career. He was killed around 1943 in a bomb raid.

Associated With

She was trained by Artur Schnabel in the late 1920s.