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Violins of Hope to recall the Holocaust

Published time: April 14, 2012 13:42
Edited time: April 14, 2012 17:42
Image from violinsofhopecharlotte.com

If violins could talk, they would have a lot to say about the Holocaust. Now, eighteen “Violins of Hope” that survived the Nazi concentration camps, and were restored by an Israeli violin maker, are making their debut in America.

Each instrument has a story to tell, with some violins once played by Jewish prisoners in Nazi camps. A number of others belonged to the Jewish Klezmer musical culture, which was all but destroyed in the Holocaust.

Using music as a powerful psychological weapon, the Nazis often made prisoner-musicians play merry music while their fellow prisoners – men, women and children – quietly proceeded straight to the gas chambers, not suspecting their tragic fate.

Some musicians survived only thanks to their instruments, left alive to play for the fascists who used music to their needs.

First played publicly in 2008 in Jerusalem, the 18 Violins of Hope, restored by Amnon Weinstein, have never before been exhibited or played together in North or South America.

Acclaimed musicians from across the country and around the world have a chance to play the instruments,

“giving voice to the violins' former owners and expressing the hope that comes with restoring to these instruments the power to play again.”

Comments (13)

RLC 19.04.2012 12:04

I cease to be amazed at the level of incompetence in our world. To deny the Holocaust is to essentially tell the world that you are not an intelligent human being. Facts are just that facts. You cannot dispute actual facts, but you can choose to be ingnorant and hateful by standing with an unsuported opinion. Dead bodies, bones and survivors speak volumes. Unfortunately, we live in a world where people will choose to deny reality and create their own little world of "hate and suspicion"...castiga ting the humans of the earth that would rather live by truth, learn by mistake and deny hatred as a viable way of life.

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pepe (unregistered) 15.04.2012 13:52

Many Holocausts wrote in #5 pepe: what is your view of Germany decision to level Stalingrad to piece; what is your view of 900 days of blockade of Leningrad? What is your view of German military leadership decision and not the Nazi party to burn villages and the entire occupied population in occupied parts of the Soviet Union? I do believe there something tragic about the sinister misuse of crimes against Jewish people in WWII but what I find disgusting and racists is racism against Slavs which the real agenda of not only Hitler but the entire German population- to create a new living space for Germans in East- which the real behind the most heinous and infamous German cruelty against the Soviet Union is glossed over and denied along with the denier against Jewish Holocaust. The Jewish Holocaust Industry has a Zionist agenda so those who push this agenda almost never acknowledge the greatest Holocaust in WWII was against the Slavs of te East. so what I see here is an attempt to kill two birds with one stone: deny Germany’s greatest crime in WWII against the Slavs of the East and the denial of the crime against the Jews in WWII. My position is very clear: I'm against the Holocaust Industry. I am also against the racist denials of Germany evil crimes against humanity in WWII.
H itler was consistent in his plan to unite and protect all large populations of German peoples against communist tyranny.  Like in the Polish corridor, the poor Volga Germans were also being raped, starved and slaughtered, and Hitler could not sit back.  The problem with your view is that it's jew-poisoned by the history of the victors.  God bless Russia and Putin, protect the torch of freedom.  

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an orchestra in auswitz 15.04.2012 09:37

These violins must have suffered terribly in nazi camps, sure you can say that auswitz was obviously not so awfull that you could not have an inmate orchestra on site and a swimming pool and a theatre for amature productions etc but that defeats the point.  

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