Violins of Hope
Played before and during the Holocaust, the Violins of Hope instruments have been painstakingly restored by Amnon Weinstein, a second-generation violin-maker, and serve as testaments to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of music to lift hearts in even the most horrific of circumstances.
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Actors & musicians provide a look at the important role of music in Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust. -
The efforts to restore violins recovered from the Holocaust. -
Steven Greenman and six of his students perform a selection of Klezmer music featuring two of the Violins of Hope. -
The Cleveland Women’s Orchestra remembers the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz as part of the Violins of Hope Cleveland. -
8th graders perform and reflect on music from “Schindler’s List” after viewing and learning about the Violins of Hope. -
Northeast Ohio teachers reflect on what they experienced during a workshop on how to present the Holocaust to students. -
Cameras capture some of the construction needed to restore The Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center. -
Ariel Clayton Karas and pianist Julia Russ perform 3 different selections during a visit to the ideastream studios. -
Amnon talks with Holocaust survivors in the gallery of the photography exhibition featuring his Tel Aviv workshop. -
Amnon talks about what it meant for the Jews to have violins in the concentration camps.
