5/04/23
In The News
Scripps News: Violins of Hope: Holocaust-era instruments brought back to life
They once belonged to Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. “The violin was something which was very much seen as a Jewish instrument,” explained Avshalom Weinstein, the co-founder of the of Violins of Hope project and a third-generation violin-maker. In workshops in Turkey and Israel, Weinstein and his father, Amnon, have spent the last 20 years lovingly collecting and repairing Holocaust-era violins. Many were played inside concentration camps where prisoners were often forced to entertain Nazis.