The Secret to Living a Long Life: Advice From a Holocaust Survivor Posted on October 24, 2014 /Under Videos “Optimism and looking for the good. Life is beautiful. You have to be happy, to admire and to be thankful that we are living. I see beauty everywhere.” —Alice Herz-Sommer Alice Herz-Sommer died February 23, 2014 at the age of 110.