Violins of Hope (33 page)

 

Tartini, Giuseppe, 122

Taube, Michael, 26, 32

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 161

Tel Aviv, 5, 31–32, 34, 50, 51, 232–33

Theresienstadt, 140, 142

Toeplitz, Erich, 24, 26, 40, 49–50

Torgersen, Christine, 192–93

Torgersen, Torleif, 193

Toscanini, Arturo, 15, 35–38, 43, 51–55

Transnistria, 12, 199–209, 214, 215, 219, 228, 233, 286, 292

Treblinka, 6

Tromsø, 168

Trøndelag, 168

Trondheim, 165, 168

Two Hebrew Melodies,
210

 

Uncle Misha's Jewish Group, 12, 235, 239, 250, 257–80

    
Red Army and, 275

Union of Norwegian Artists and Journalists, 154

Uranus,
80–82

 

Van Weren, Lex, 118

Vatelot, Étienne, 8

Vatra Dornei, 218

Verbena,
89

Vilna, 6–7

violins, 10, 20, 58, 286

    
Amati,
see
Amati violins

    
of Bull, 151, 159–61, 163, 166, 172, 191, 193–94, 217, 292

    
of Glaser, 178, 183

    
Guarneri, 159, 217, 288;
see also
Guarneri, Bartolomeo Giuseppe

    
in Holocaust, 10–13, 285–92

    
Jewish symbols on, 291

    
Placht Brothers,
see
Placht Brothers violins

    
of Schlein, 237, 241–42, 253, 254, 266–69, 271–74, 279–81, 290

    
unidentified, 290–92

    
Wagner, 57–58, 280

    
of Weininger, 67, 69, 87, 93–94, 99, 103, 104

    
of Wininger (Amati), 217, 219–23, 226, 227, 286, 292

    
of Wininger (Placht Brothers), 226–27, 230, 233–34

Violins of Hope, 59, 281

    
Bull's violin and, 193–94

    
Schlein's violin and, 280–81

    
Weininger's violin and, 67, 69, 87, 93–94, 99, 103, 104

“Volga Song,” 273

Volhyn,
245

Volhynia, 235, 237–39

    
Nazi occupation of, 245–53

Vollan, 168

 

Wagner, Benedict, 57

Wagner, Richard, 18, 20, 38, 57

Wagner Violin, 57–58, 280

Walter, Bruno, 26

Weber, Carl Maria von, 55

Weinberger, Jaromír, 161

Weingartner, Felix, 43

Weininger, Erich, 11, 63, 65, 67, 69–70, 72–76, 79, 82, 87, 90, 93–94, 99, 103–4, 107, 108, 232

    
in Beau Bassin Boys, 61, 99

    
death of, 104

    
marriage of, 101

    
violin of, 67, 69, 87, 93–94, 99, 103, 104

Weininger, Karl, 73

Weininger, Otto, 73

Weininger, Ruth Rosenthal, 101

Weininger, Tova, 104

Weininger, Ze'ev, 101, 104

Weinstein, Amnon, 1, 3, 5, 7–10, 58–59, 285–86, 290–92

    
Krongold's violin and, 290, 291

    
Schlein's violin and, 279–81, 290

    
Weininger's violin and, 104

    
Wininger's violin and, 233–34

    
Zimmerman and, 8, 290, 291

Weinstein, Assi, 8–9

Weinstein, Avshalom, 8, 9

Weinstein, Esther, 3, 5

Weinstein, Golda (Zahava), 3–4, 5–7

Weinstein, Moshe, 1, 3–8, 57–58, 290

Weinstein, Yaakov, 4

Weintraub, Leon, 132, 136

Weizmann, Chaim, 48

Wieniawski, Henryk, 241

Wiesel, Elie, 144

Wininger, Feivel, 12, 195, 200–202, 204–8, 210–34

    
Amati violin of, 217, 219–23, 226, 227, 286, 292

    
cello of, 224–25

    
in Israel, 232–33

    
Placht Brothers violin of, 226–27, 230, 233–34

Wininger, Helen, 195, 201, 202, 204, 205, 207, 208, 212, 214, 223, 229, 232–34

Wininger, Tzici, 201, 202, 204, 205, 207, 208, 212, 214, 215, 223, 227, 229, 232, 233

World War I, 17–18, 21

World War II:

    
end of, 102

    
Nazis' seizure of musical items during, 286–87

    
neutrality in, 171

World Zionist Organization, 48

 

Yad Vashem, 148, 171, 281

    
Holocaust History Museum, 281

Yellin, Thelma, 56

 

Zaborski, Jan, 121, 123

“Zapateado,” 187–88

Zeiss Ikon factory, 109

Zelmanowicz, Rachela, 139

Zhytomyr, 235, 265, 266, 269

Zimmerman, Heinrich, 40

Zimmerman, Yaakov, 4–5, 8, 283, 290, 291

Zionism, 3–4, 26, 31, 45, 48, 75, 231–32

Zipper, Herbert, 65–69, 72, 116

Zukerman, Pinchas, 5, 10

JAMES A. GRYMES
is an internationally respected musicologist and a critically acclaimed author. He holds a bachelor's degree in music education from Virginia Commonwealth University, master's degrees in historical musicology and music performance, and a PhD in historical musicology from Florida State University. His three previous books are about the Hungarian musician Ernst von Donhányi, a forgotten hero of the Holocaust resistance who was later falsely accused of Nazi war crimes. Dr. Grymes is a professor of musicology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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