The Violins of Hope contain in their wooden forms the stories of utmost pain, loss and hope, having survived a period in history that many of their owners didn’t.
“The philosopher and writer George Santayana once said, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Today, the atrocities of the Holocaust are remembered in stories: told through literature, film, art and word of mouth. But knowledge also exists in artefacts that outlive the times they’re created in, or before, and endure. The Violins of Hope are such artefacts…”
