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    Pianist. author. radio host. Mona Golabek (born June 23, 1954) is an American concert pianist, author, and radio host. She has appeared with many leading orchestras and made numerous recordings. Golabek co-wrote a book entitled The Children of Willesden Lane that chronicles her mother's experience with the Kindertransport which was published in ...

  2. Mona Golabek is the founder and president of the Hold On To Your Music Foundation. An author, recording artist, and internationally renowned concert pianist, she learned to play the piano from her mother, Holocaust survivor Lisa Jura, whose stories inspired the critically-acclaimed book, The Children Of Willesden Lane. Her father, Michel ...

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  4. Mona Golabek is the daughter of Lisa Jura, a child piano prodigy born in Vienna, Austria, who came to England as a refugee in 1938 as part of the Kindertransport rescue operation. Her father, Michel Golabek, was a French resistance fighter, who received the Croix de Guerre. Mona’s grandparents died at Auschwitz.

  5. about the foundation. The Hold On To Your Music Foundation shares a universal story of hope that transcends all backgrounds, empowering generations with knowledge, understanding and the will to make a positive impact. Since its founding, Mona Golabek has traveled the globe to share her mother’s inspirational story through books, music and the ...

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  6. Jul 23, 2014 · Mona Golabek as a Jewish teenager who escapes the Nazis in “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” at 59E59 Theaters. ... And while Ms. Golabek doesn’t entirely disappear into the other characters ...

  7. 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

  8. Mar 21, 2015 · Mona Golabek in the one-woman show “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” in front of an image of her parents. Ms. Golabek’s unlikely path into theater began at the piano, taking lessons from her ...

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