This week I had an emotional visit of two brothers, Uri and Amos Barnea and their wives. They brought me the violin of their father Ziegbert who immigrated to Palestine in 1937. His parents, Berta and Alfred Bernheim were the owners of a big shopping center in Bavaria. The Nazis took over the shop and marched Berta and Alfred naked in the main street. Ziegbert left Germany and never stopped playing his violin. His parents survived the war, immigrated to Israel, and lived to an old age.
This is a handmade German violin, with many cracks and scratches. Now that I restored it, it will play again, for many years to come.
