Sgt. Mordechai Shenvald, 34, of Israel's Defense Forces (IDF), was one of the performers at a Jerusalem Theatre concert on July 7, 2024 — and played the "Theme from Schindler’s List" on the restored ...
WARSAW, Poland – The Polish city of Czestochowa is renaming its orchestra to honor a native son: Bronislaw Huberman, a Polish-Jewish violin virtuoso who helped save hundreds of German Jews from the ...
A musical instrument known as the violin of hope, which was made during World War II, has revealed a long buried secret after art dealers discovered a handwritten message left inside by its maker ...
The FBI returned the rare 300-year-old Stradivarius to the Totenberg daughters 35 years after it was stolen from their father. Jewish violin virtuoso Roman Totenberg enjoyed a long life, making it to ...
A filmmaker with a faltering career receives a grant to make a documentary about his father, a famous Jewish author and therapist for Holocaust survivors. When the discovery of a mysterious violin ...
Orsolya Korcsolan has a secret. Orsolya Korcsolan has a secret. The Hungarian-born violinist and her horn-playing husband Gergely Sugar spent the last six years performing with the internationally ...
The sounds of a Jewish violin that survived the Holocaust moved audiences at two sold out performances of the concert Unsilenced, that took place recently at Nova Southeastern University’s Alvin ...
In the death camps and ghettos of Nazi Germany, prisoners performed orchestral works as others were being beaten or led to their deaths. Most of them are now gone, but nearly 100 of their instruments ...
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