Playing Level: Very Good
This violin is a gift donated to the project by Ana, Eli and Ben Ehrenpreis. The restoration work is dedicated to the memory of outrageous pogroms conducted by Polish citizens against their neighbors of the Jewish community in a few villages and shtetels throughout Poland. Those atrocities took place in Jedwabne, Radzilow, Szczuczyn, and Kolno. The pogrom in Jedwabne (the name means: silk), took place on July 10, 1941, when local people gathered the Jews, humiliating them all, killing the men and dragging women, children and old people into a nearby barn, burning them all. 1,600 Jews were killed that day. Only seven people survived. Similar pogroms took place in nearby Radzilow and other towns.
