Escaping Extermination

Escaping Extermination by Agi Jambor. The former BMC music professor relates her life underground in WWII Hungary and escape to the U.S. before the Communist takeover. (Purdue University Press, 2019)

Agi Jambor was born in 1909 in Budapest, Hungary, the Jewish daughter of a wealthy businessman and a prominent piano teacher. A piano prodigy, she was playing Mozart before she could read and at the age of 12 made her debut with a symphony orchestra. She became a professor of classical piano at Bryn Mawr College. She died in 1997 in Baltimore.