Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest known survivor of the Holocaust, died in a London hospital on Sunday morning, The Guardian reported. She was 110-years-old.
Herz-Sommer, who lived in London, was admitted to the hospital on Friday, her family said.
She "passed away peacefully this morning with her family by her bedside," said Herz-Sommer's grandson, Ariel Sommer, according to The Guardian.
During the Holocaust, Herz-Sommer was sent to a Nazi concentration camp in Terezin in 1943. Herz-Sommer and 20,000 others were freed from the camp by a Soviet army in May 1945, the BBC reported.
Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. The holocaust survivor, whose family is Jewish, was a pianist and music teacher who taught at the Jerusalem Conservatory until 1986.
"My world is music," Herz-Sommer said in a documentary about her life titled "The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life," according to CNN. "I'm not interested in doing anything else."
The film is nominated for an Oscar for best short documentary.
"To those of us who knew her best, she was our dear 'Gigi,' " Herz-Sommer's grandson said, The Guardian reported. "She loved us, laughed with us, and cherished music with us."
About 35,000 prisoners died at the Terezin camp during World War II. Herz-Sommer's 73-year-old mother, who was also at Terezin, was later taken to an extermination camp.
"And I went with her of course till the last moment. This was the lowest point of my life," Herz-Sommer said in the documentary, according to the BBC. "She was sent away. Till now I do not know where she was, till now I do not know when she died, nothing."
Herz-Sommer said it was music that kept her alive during her time at Terezin. She often performed concerts for the Nazis.
Herz-Sommer played the music of Beethoven and Schubert until her last days.
"I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion. I am no longer myself. The body cannot resist as it did in the past," Herz-Sommer said, according to the BBC.
"I think I am in my last days but it does not really matter because I have had such a beautiful life."
