Stella Tchaikovsky was born in 1923 in the German refuge of Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland.
She lived for a time in the Polish ghetto of Lodz before being sent in August 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp together with her parents and her six-year-younger sister.
Almost immediately she was put in a gas chamber.
On that particular day, there was a technical error in the chamber and Tchaikovsky survived.
She was then moved, along with her sister and mother to the Stuffhof camp.
Tchaikovsky's father was gassed to death in Auschwitz and her mother died of exhaustion and starvation in the Stuffhof camp.
At the end of the Second World War, she was liberated by the British army and then went to Sweden with the Red Cross boats.
Concert pianist
Tchaikovsky moves to Poland in 1947 to study music at the music school in Lodz and Warsawa.
There she graduated from a postgraduate program in piano and has since worked as a concert pianist and professor at the Gothenburg Academy of Music.
In 2018, she received the Mai von Rosen piano teacher award from the Academy of Music.
Stella Tchaikovsky was 99 years old.