Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson (born Janna Arshanskaya, April 1, 1927 – January 9, 2023) was a Russian-American pianist, Holocaust survivor and faculty member of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University (Bloomington). Dawson came to national prominence in 2009 after her son, journalist Greg Dawson published a book, Hiding in the Spotlight, chronicling her escape from the Holocaust.A middle-grade book, Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis, by Susan Hood with Greg Dawson was published in 2022.
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1 April 1927
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9 January 2023 (aged 95)
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