PITTSBURGH ― Holocaust lessons and insights into perseverance await all who attend Violins of Hope Greater Pittsburgh's groundbreaking project starting in October. Arts and community groups, religious ...

Encased in glass, each violin represent a heartbreaking story. Jewish musicians played these instruments in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust for survival, resistance or comfort.

Amnon Weinstein, co-founder of Violins of Hope, restores a Holocaust era violin in his workshop. (Image courtesy of Miki Koren.) A violin can inspire unmatched emotional heat and historical power.

Walking into the Violins of Hope exhibition, you don’t see just instruments – you feel stories. Each violin, scarred and storied, carries with it the weight of the history and horrors of the Holocaust ...

For the first time, Violins of Hope, which features restored violins owned by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust, comes to the Vail Valley on Wednesday. Though the Vilar Performing Arts ...

Musicians have a relationship to their instrument, their audience and to the music they play. The Violins of Hope concert, hosted by Chabad of Wilmette on June 4, connected audience members to Violins ...

Schaumburg Township District Library is proud to host a portion of the Violins of Hope collection, from Aug. 7 through Sept. 7, 2023, at its Central Library in Schaumburg. Thanks to a partnership with ...

CALGARY, Alberta, April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Music Centre (NMC), in partnership with the Calgary Jewish Federation and the Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary is pleased to ...

Violins of Hope is a concert featuring youth musicians performing on restored violins that survived the Holocaust. The event, led by Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Helen H. Cha-Pyo, will ...

Some were displaced during the war. One was tossed from a cattle train en route from Paris to Auschwitz. Another survived Dachau. These violins, long associated with the Holocaust, have been restored ...

There is a message of hope in every wish for a Happy New Year, and we all need every assurance we can get. Music is always a reliable source, and the start of 2020 promises heartening chances to renew ...