Amnon Weinstein turned grief into music again
The restorer and reviver of Holocaust violins died on March 4th, aged 84
As he grew up, Amnon Weinstein wondered where his extended family was. Where were his grandfather and grandmother, his uncles and aunts? In reply his mother would reach for a book about Vilnius, then in Poland, their home once, and show him a picture of Ponary forest. “Here they are,” she would say. Under the tall, thin, silent trees.
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