Born into a prosperous Jewish family in 1927, [Ruzickova] saw her world turned upside down by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. Culture and comfort were lost... Her accounts of her later career as a concert artist and of the pettier tyrannies of the communist regime under which her country suffered prove less visceral and memorable than her survivor’s testament to the horrors of the Holocaust, but Ruzickova’s humanity shines through the entire book. One Hundred Miracles is a moving record of a life well lived in the face of appalling obstacles.
