Playing Level: Very Good
This is clearly a violin that survived the Jewish fate—either a ghetto, a hard labor camp or worse. We don't have a clue as to the name of the person who played it, but in the documentary film, Le Voyage d'Amnon (Amnon’s Journey), it was played by Shlomo Mintz at the gate to Auschwitz. We took it back to where it once maybe belonged and now symbolizes. When Shlomo Mintz played Ba'al Shem by Ernest Bloch, we felt as if the violin had gone a full circle.
