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Camera as Witness Stanford Arts Presents Summer series REFLECTIONS co-presented with Coupa Café, Department of Music, Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford Film Society and Stanford Research Park
VIOLINS OF HOPE - STRINGS OF THE HOLOCAUST
(57 minutes) Israel/US
Director/Producer: Lance Shultz
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.
Reception hosted by Coupa Café Stanford Research Park at 5:30PM
Please join us for the conversation with Stanford Department of Music professor Anthony Martin and TDB Family Foundation Founder and President Terri Bullock moderated by Jasmina Bojic, Stanford Arts Camera as Witness Program Director and Founder of the international documentary film festival UNAFF.
FREE and open to the general public