Description:
Narrated
by Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody, Violins of Hope -
Strings of the Holocaust, features Israeli master violinmaker
Amnon Weinstein and his efforts to restore violins from the
Holocaust. The collection of violins represent an incredible history
of suffering, courage and resiliency. They belonged to starving
Jewish refugees who carried them during the death marches in World
War II Europe, to concentration camp victims who were forced to play
during the execution of tens of thousands of innocent people, to
desperate inhabitants of the ghettos where children often played for
crumbs, and to those in the work camps where millions died a slow
death from starvation and disease. Their amazing stories are blended
into Weinstein’s mission to not only collect and restore the
violins, but to send them back out into the world where they are
played by renowned musicians and orchestras around the world. It is a
mission of love but also one of defiance to those who tried to
silence the music and a people. In September of 2015, the Violins of
Hope arrived in Cleveland, Ohio from Tel Aviv, accompanied by Amnon
Weinstein for a special presentation of lectures, history,
educational workshops and especially music. Violins of Hope -
Strings of the Holocaust will include a historical look at Jewish
culture and how some musicians were able to survive the Holocaust
through their music.
Biography: Lance
Shultz is an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and director who has
created and produced a variety of quality programming for the
domestic and foreign broadcast markets. Many of Lance’s films have
garnered numerous regional and national awards and remain some of the
highest rated documentaries produced for television in North America.
