Sioux City, Iowa (RI) – Nearly 200 eighth grade students heard the Sioux City Symphony perform “Violins of Hope” this past week, on restored violins from Holocaust victims of World War Two. Jerry Weiner organized the event as part of tolerance week activities.
Weiner says each of the violins were tracked back to their owners, and each has a story.
All of the violins have been played by musicians all over the world, except for one that is kept without strings.
The Sioux City Symphony played a free concert on the violins at the Orpheum Theatre for the public and the violins were played before that at the Holocaust Rails exhibit at the Sioux City Railroad Museum.
Photo courtesy KSCJ Radio, via Radio Iowa
