Harpsichord Virtuoso Zuzana Ruzickova’s Legacy Captured on Film

Harpsichord Virtuoso Zuzana Ruzickova’s Legacy Captured on Film
Zuzana Ruzickova in the documentary "Zuzana." Zuzana: Life is Music
Catherine Yang
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NEW YORK—Looking straight at the viewer, Zuzana Ruzickova, then 87, detailed the horrors of three Nazi concentration camps, and then the following communist regime takeover, in measured tones and with great clarity.

“When people ask me how I was able to survive, I always say, ‘It was a hundred miracles,’” Ruzickova said.