Last Sunday, we attended a concert at The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis as part of an exhibit, “Violins of Hope: Honoring Memory Through Music.” Presented in partnership with the Minnesota JCC, the event features 70 violins that survived the Holocaust, and the stories of the Jewish musicians who hid, played and preserved them. The collection was started by Israeli father and son violin makers, Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein, who in 2008 began featuring the instruments at concerts, exhibitions and educational events focused on the Holocaust, the genocide of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and their collaborators. Once played in World War II hideouts, ghettos and concentration camps, the violins still make music, tour worldwide, preserve victims’ heritage and voices and inspire us to witness a “victory of the human spirit over evil and hatred.”
Map & web links: The Museum of Russian Art, https://tmora.org/, Minnesota JCC, https://www.violins-of-hope.com/
Bonus Question: In the serial saga Star Wars, what species is Yoda? (answer at end of post)
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| Source: tmora.org |
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| Source: tmora.org |
Bonus Question Answer: Trick question—Yoda’s species and home world have never been named. Star Wars creator George Lucas intentionally kept Yoda’s origin story a mystery.
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