Search results
Lisa went on to become a professional pianist. In 1949, she married resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor Michel Golabek and the pair immigrated to the U.S. The couple had two daughters, Mona and Renee, who continued their mother’s legacy, becoming concert pianists and fulfilling Malka’s wish that they hold on to their music.
Apr 1, 2012 · An expression of hope and the life-affirming power of music, The Pianist of Willesden Lane tells the true story of a young Jewish musician, who was sent from Nazi-ruled Vienna to the relative safety of London during the Blitzkrieg. In this inspirational show, piano virtuoso Mona Golabek performs some of the world’s most beautiful music as she shares her own mother’s riveting story of survival.
Jan 11, 2016 · Adapted by Hershey Felder from the book The Pianist of Willesden Lane, by Los Angelean pianist Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, this is the true story of Mona’s mother, Lisa Jura, a young Jewish pianist whose dreams about her Vienna concert debut are shattered by the Nazis in the 1938 Anschluss like the
Apr 3, 2022 · Mona Golabek is the daughter of Lisa Jura, a concert pianist, and French resistance fighter Michel Golabek. Mona’s mother was one of 10,000 Jewish children who were brought to England before ...
Sep 16, 2018 · Mona Golabek in The Pianist of Willesden Lane. Photo courtesy of Hershey Felder Presents. As the story begins, Golabek imagines the experiences of Lisa, as a fourteen-year-old prodigy in 1938 Vienna, with an evocative description of taking the trolley across the Danube from the city’s Jewish quarter to her piano lesson in the opulent part of the city where palaces and concert halls are found.
Biography. Mona Golabek was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Lisa Jura, a concert pianist and Michel Golabek, winner of the Croix de Guerre. Her mother Lisa was born in Austria and was one of 10,000 children brought to England before World War II as part of the Kindertransport, a mission to rescue children threatened by the Nazis.
Jan 29, 2024 · Acclaimed pianist Mona Golabek is the daughter of Viennese pianist Lisa Jura, whose life was thrown into turmoil in the late 1930s by the spread of fascism in Europe. Golabek has kept her mother’s legacy alive by recounting her story — first in a book called T he Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music ...
