WGN TV: How 2 violin makers keep history alive through restoring instruments

For two decades, a father and son duo have quietly collected and repaired over 70 violins used by victims and survivors of the Holocaust.“I opened the violin,” Amnon Weinstein said, recalling one of the violins he helped restore. “I remember black powder all on the inside from the crematorium and horrible places.” Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein work on the violins in their workshops based in Tel Aviv and Istanbul, and this week, decades of painstaking work made its way to Chicago.