Chained Melody: A Violin “Recital” in Auschwitz

A moving depiction of a true event that occurred one evening in the concentration camp.
By A.R. Miller

[@abhisheksutodiya7281]

The melody starts of with hope and energy. Then comes a reality check with sadness and difficulty. Then renewed energy to fight and not give up. More of the same. Some more pain and sadness. Then acceptance of the situation due to lack of options. Some peace follows. Life is beautiful. Hope is a wonderful thing.

[@abhisheksutodiya7281]

I went there last year. Every single day after coming back I still feel a part of me is there right now. New questions come up each day. No answers.

[@mango2005]

Some members of the Auschwitz womens orchestra survived in this way such as Fania Fenelon. The film "Playing for Time" (1980) is on Netflix now about her story.

[@SuperReader1]

It's a wonderful movie.

[@paulhunter1525]

Having that talent for music possible saved lives of those people. Even the NAZI officers with Souls of beasts can be tamed by music.

[@laurapickman9415]

I am weeping. Bitter sweet. Thank you for sharing. I love that song.

[@charlessomerset9754]

So why werent you playing a violin version of Kol Nidre as the music to accompany this lovely story?

[@sabnazzy]

so many million's of talented people in many field's,such a gigantic loss to all of the world.

[@robinpratt1516]

A story about a musician and his violin with a digital piano solo sound track...the logic escapes me.

[@lisajoye1450]

Robin Pratt you make a very interesting point.

[@Pendaws]

Maybe to be a Jew you might understand, he drew from his roots, it was ALL he had. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol_Nidre Read a little.

[@andi827]

@@Pendaws Do you even understand his comment

[@humbleone6405]

Maybe because music goes beyond hate and prejudice.

[@alexagudo9756]

The doom of Jewish race

[@alvinchea8057]

Fantastic job Yaron!!!! love love love love this-gorgeously tragic story and stirring musical underpinnings.

[@patriciaschuster1371]

Some of the violins used in camps like this are putting on a performance at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

[@StarLight-db1wv]

Thank you for posting this.

[@rosimerebezerramere2569]

Amo a resiliência e a grandeza espiritual do povo judeu que em meio as maiores atrocidades sobreviveu!!! Viva este povo que sempre admirei

[@tarasubramaniam6191]

I always weep for Excellence personified Music 's Best ALMA ROSE ..Her father never played after this horrible war took millions of INNOCENTS....most Cruelly

[@paulhunter1525]

He wasn't playing instrument for his NAZI oppressors. He was playing to give his fellow Jews prisoners a glimpse of hope, of dignity in a place where none was possible. I am sure God grant him place in heaven.

[@susanmccusker6386]

Wonderful music so much peace in the music for a moment over come the bad times God bless them all

[@iworkout6912]

Such a great story, and being a student of history of that period, I believe it happened. So terrible when people say it probably never happened, just read about the camps the Nazi's had all over Germany, Poland and elsewhere. Lets hope the story never dies like so many in the camps did.

[@catrionagoldthorp9040]

I would have loved to hear the music he played that evening.

[@forestmcneir3325]

The violin strain at the very end were the first few bars from Kol Nidre. This made me cry. What Jew wouldn't?

[@DorMF]

google Kol Nidrei

[@imanacer]

Yeah, looks like we're going to HAVE TO google Kol Nidrei because the genius who put this video together about a violinist playing Kol Nidrei thought it would be cool to have a PIANO in the background playing something OTHER THAN KOL NIDREI! Brilliant!

[@verah619]

Kol Nidrei kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKirfnh-o7yYkJI

[@stelsue1958]

To hear it "that night", really?

[@joanbaczek2575]

I want to hear this song on violin. Can you make that happen?

[@christianevattier2533]

Thank you. For all. Always remember Amen

[@bibianamassey7530]

Beauty and spirituality in the midst of horror and ugliness...

[@delta3298]

A beautiful story, whether it took place or not. Kol nidre is a truly beautiful song. For the non-jews in the audience, the song is played on the eve of yom kipper- and asks god to forgive all the vows the Jews weren’t strong enough to keep. Yom kipper is the holiest day of the year. It is a time where the Jews atone for their sins, pray for their loved ones/ancestors and ask god forgiveness. It is a period that the Jews believe seals their fate for the year.

[@rcabletn]

The Nazis never extended grace and mercy. Even today many among us lack such offers to others.

[@sealily6015]

delta 32 thank you - just listening to it being played on the violin now. It is exquisite.

[@sugarplum4128]

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year...for jews, for others it is Christmas and so on. Just to let you know.

[@susanslack743]

Day of Atonement... Thats what Jesus came to do to take our place and atone for our sins. Ive never heard Kol Nideri? But its about forgivness. Wow i believe the story happened. It lifted up the people Of God on one of the darkest days of their history. What a brave man and a brave kind act to play something that would lift them up even if only temporarily.

[@gwolfstahl]

And traditionally the song is done 3x.

[@johnbrown9092]

Beautiful video. Very moving.

[@lornakim9886]

Merci Beaucoup for posting your very beautiful Violinist ..True story and about the extremely diabolical Nazis-exactly terrible from Satan

[@dr.valerie-dawngirhiny2503]

OOps my comment disappeared. YOU MADE MY DAY. You are one DYNAMIC speaker. Thank you for your special suggestion. I went from down to UP!

[@rutbrea8796]

Today is Shabbat 2/5/22. I was given Ezkiel 1, to read on this Shabbat. I Cry with you my people, always. Return to HaShem your G-D, He is waiting for your return. Burn and destroy your idols those who have failed in following Torah of HaShem, your CREATOR knows that you are just humans amongst the nations. A small people, but loved by your SAVIOR and your REDEEMER. Destroy , bury your idols, and return to your beloved home.

[@gwolfstahl]

If you listen to the very end...some of the plaintive notes ARE played on a violin...

[@victoriahull8852]

All I can say is. Oh dear God have mercy on us please

[@christoschristof]

Do we know whether this talented and passionate violin player, Srebrenik, ever survived Auschwitz?

[@christoschristof]

@@b.miller2799 Thank you! It would be very significant to find out. He can tell of his many emotions as he played Kol Nidre with his soul on that cold night...Unfortunately and with so many examples through history, hate has always been the cause of so much misfortune and suffering in this world...

[@b.miller2799]

@@christoschristof He did survive, and his grandson was the founder of an organization, Arachim. here's the book: www.artscroll.com/Books/9781422617113.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjw-uH6BRDQARIsAI3I-UdDB1X6iWZ3lEAjQ-T-BoC7EgRtrrzzunWpGSmNZAN9fsKu8BlB07caAuGkEALw_wcB

[@evamarek5205]

@@b.miller2799 Thank God for that!

[@Christie14kt]

Maybe playing a violin recital rather than a piano recital? Just sayin'

[@therionlagattapifa1264]

The fragment of music at the last sounds like an arrangement (for violin) of German (protestant) composer Max Bruchs Kol nidrei for cello and orchestra (and yes, the melody is traditional and used for Yom Kippur - The Day of Atonement).

[@nancyleiper9307]

Perhaps I make too much of it but Christie - you missed the forest for the trees. When God visits - we heard with the ear of the soul.

[@XyYx-on1gl]

Christie14kt, yea, probably, the sound of violin is sadder?

[@gerjawitteveen5027]

Thought the same.

[@sjmanning2766]

I agree Baruch’s violin composition would have been better

[@cacampbell3654]

Such a glorious opportunity to educate and enlighten non-Jews and non-practicing Jews, or those who know little of the religion, their ancestry, etc. An opportunity lost to probably most: all those of us who don’t know much about Yom Kippur or the song mentioned. #exclusiveknowledge

[@zwijntje3010]

Wow !!!!! This must have been so fantastic to the other prisoners. That stupid idiotic nazi's didn't even know that is was Yom Kippoer, and that the song he played was the Kol Nidrei. I also feel this pride !!! NEVER AGAIN, NEVER FORGET !!! 💜✡💜✡💜✡💜

[@ja19ke82]

If the music matched the text it would spoil the story. By not playing Kol Nidrei we are left wondering to the end what the violin music was. The reveal makes for a more impactful finish.

[@evamarek5205]

Exactly! I was wondering all along in suspense!

[@erictrumpler9652]

This is a beautiful story, but why do you accompany it with the wrong music? I had to turn off the sound, because i found the piano music so annoying, even that there was music playing when the story suggested that there was silence....this is the music that should be on this video, and not at the beginning, but at the right point in the story: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4rHiahogq1pj6c

[@rutbrea8796]

Kol Nidre. My favorite song of all songs! B"H

[@comradecat3678]

Why wouldn’t you have a violin version of the song playing in the background ?

[@thanosathianos-gkogkas6987]

Music plizzz ?????????

[@concepcion2680]

por favor quisiera ver todos estos documentales en español

[@hiimhere1289]

All violinists unite! I’m a german violinist.....that’s cool I guess....ya know I actually thought violin wasn’t that cool but now I think it’s AWESOME

[@ral1334]

I guess we have to search elsewhere to hear the song now.

[@chanabayla1823]

This. Is. My. People. The heart and soul of my faith

[@berndwalther2820]

I am German,born'66! What,do you think does Stories Like this with my Soul?

[@estherkapinga7082]

Jesus Christ was there that evening with His Holy Spirit ❤️

[@todberry5068]

Das ist fantastisch! Geh Yidden!

[@nskimharris]

I'd go with Saint Anne's Reel there I think. or...off to California

[@marthacain1468]

God's voice was heard, at long last~!

[@rons7096]

Poignant....

[@justmejustme1245]

Way to Powerful

[@laurac904]

My aunt was there she was a violinist, she had to die and suffer it has hurt our family what sick monsters,no!

[@dukadarodear2176]

Kol Nidrei is the tune's name. I'm not Jewish so I don't know the significance of it in this context. I would appreciate an explanation from someone who knows. Thanks in anticipation.

[@abigailmiller6295]

A comment below from "mrsupaloco" asked the same and received a clear response.

[@DorMF]

Kol Nidrei means "all vows." It a start prayer on Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is a day of Judgment. On Rosh HaShanah the future is written on Yom Kippur it is sealed. This prayer proactively annuls any personal or religious oaths or prohibitions made upon oneself to G d for the next year, so as to preemptively avoid the sin of breaking vows made to God which cannot be or are not upheld. It is very emotional and haunting melody. This prayer is not taken lightly. There are plenty of example on youtube

[@nudnikjeff]

The explanation was great, but left out that Yom Kippur is by far the holiest most solemn day of the year. And every Jew would recognize the Kol Nidre immediately. It will tear at their souls.

[@ojthimble3703]

Wow , even Yom Kippor touches the Germans !!!!!!!! That is the Power of GOD

[@ethicskroger3031]

GLORIOUS Music on God's Holiest Day YOM KIPPUR, High Holidays!!

[@MikeGreenwood51]

God's holiest day? Maybe God should decide which day he decides is the holiest. It may be an important point to remember but God is not the personal property of Israel or the Judaen rabbianicals.

[@davidskeeterskeeter1835]

Ethics Kroger fuck you and your mythical god,! 🐖💨💨💨🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@cynsalm2288]

Kol Nidrei lyrics: Prohibitions, oaths, consecrations, vows that we may vow, swear, consecrate, or prohibit upon ourselves from this Yom Kippur until the next Yom Kippur, may it come upon us for good regarding them all, we regret them henceforth. They will all be permitted, abandoned, cancelled, null and void, without power and without standing. Our vows shall not be valid vows; our prohibitions shall not be valid prohibitions; and our oaths shall not be valid oaths.

[@mariannewarradijn1084]

Yom Kippur, all our promises. But where is the music?

[@tinkmarshino]

And people say there is no GOD! that brought tears to my eyes.. thank you LORD for you tender mercies..

[@GOLDESCAFLOWNE]

Why piano????

[@mariaschreurs2110]

what happened with this violist?

[@ahmedizyan5287]

😢😢😢

[@mariamadarova3326]

and where is violin music

[@verah619]

Kol Nidrei kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKirfnh-o7yYkJI

[@rogelioregalado2032]

What song did he play

[@cocokai9661]

I'm not sure I understand this story. I've always read that the Jews had all their belongings taken from them...where then did this man get his violin? I will watch again, perhaps I missed something.

[@abigailmiller6295]

The Nazis provided it to him for this performance.

[@johnappleyard4123]

You truly could answer to your question w/o asking somebody else…

[@NZfabrock]

Sounds like the Titanic

[@johntheobald8611]

The dislikers amongst us show their ignorance by their immature comments if one cannot say anything nice then say nothing

[@gwolfstahl]

Kol Nidre on violin. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5PFYautjZplitEsi=LOT8cq9ojleW1FzA

[@user-gd9vw1jk4b]

Не знаю чья мелодия ! Похожа на Шопена !

[@mrsupaloco]

I've got limited knowledge about this. What would the song have meant to the jewish population?

[@erictrumpler9652]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4rHiahogq1pj6c

[@denieceseawell884]

alternate account whos they

[@richlaw1953]

alternate account j

[@NZfabrock]

They wanted to hear some Metallica

[@rogerdalesk]

I'm sorry, I don't get it.

[@DorMF]

Kol Nidrei is a prayer on Yom Kippur , day of atonement. It would have given the Jews in the camp just a little bit of strengths and hope

[@djphoenix9498]

Here is what is missing from this posting: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6awqXaDiapnba8

[@JazzSamurai]

Great story but strange that I can’t find any other mention of this event on the internet.

[@baruchben-david4196]

It might be the search terms you used. Try Auschwitz Yom Kippur Kol Nidre. You'll find plenty of references.

I can bet that for some reason, for a few moments those Nazis became human beings again.

[@cathy-yz3rb]

Dear GOD may this never happen again in YESHUA HAMASHIACH MATCHLESS HOLY NAME AMEN

[@c.joyceb.8991]

Nazis so cruel, took time out from their cruelty to the prisoners, to be entertained by a wonderful Jewish musician. So Sad. How did the Nazis "do what they were told", how could any human do this cruelty to men, women and children, How?

[@semsemeini7905]

All Jews were addressed as "Jew." In the letters from the Germans about my grandfather they describe him as "The Jew Salo Feuerwerk". So demeaning.

[@b.miller2799]

To remind us who we are! It depends how you look at it :) G-d reminding them daily they were his chosen people

[@michaelboylan5308]

The words are not good enough, You need the language of Primo Levi or Paul Celan

[@twopeasinapod9082]

187 dislikes, shame on you.

[@lindapaterson7960]

8

[@williamdonovan7867]

Yeah wtf is wiv the piano ? Take the time to do it again please wiv a violin rendition

[@allenk5649]

Why all this suffering upon the Jewish people? The answer is: Isaiah53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

[@RichardGMoss]

Who cares about your dead man! In his name millions of Jews have been killed.

[@sparx180]

Allen K Sorry but the Jews bring it upon themselves. Jesus Christ stood on Mt. Olive overlooking Jerusalem where a crowd of Jews stood. Jesus said "you have defied God's law, etc., etc., "You will be cast all over the world and wherever you go you will be hated" the Jews yelled out "kill him, kill him." This is why the Jews do not believe in Jesus but I sure do and always have! I won't go into the reasons why Jews are hated it would take too long!

[@peterbaxter2913]

With great respect, this is like one of those interminable jokes that go on and on and on and on until those still awake have entirely lost interest. I gave it two minutes.

[@Succeshero-yw1rl]

Nazis are like pedophiles...sick satanic vile creatures! Let God take care of them in hell!!

[@winnysneece694]

Very sad. HOPE this never happens again to ANY religious group. Horrible sad history.

[@evantorch6122]

Maybe God felt apologetic for being absent?!

[@mikeberger7554]

The logic excaped you because you don't know history. It is highly unlikely that the film camera that captured a few seconds of the prisoner had the ability to record audio.

[@tracyberesford8346]

Demonization, persecution, segregation, isolation xxxx wear your star of David with pride xxxx

[@sammysam6210]

blow it out your zionist ass

[@sparx180]

Tracy Beresford Would they allow the Palestinians to fly their flag without demonization, persecution, segregation, isolation, stinking water. God Bless the Palestinian people. Those that have not been murdered!!

[@uptonsinclair8215]

If it's immoral to deny the holocaust--which it is--shouldn't it also be immoral to deny the social justice holocaust against the people of Palestine? If it's wrong for Trump's police to beat black men in the streets, shouldn't it also be wrong for Netanyahu's police to beat Palestinian men in the streets?

[@keithrose6931]

Chloe wilson The Arabs tried to push lseral into the sea . The winners win and the losers lose ! Don't mess with the Israelis.

[@jackobtthoronn5388]

A palestinian playing piano 4 the largest Concentration Camp in Gaza? Its amazing!!

[@TheJAMESTAIT10]

Wow no string accompanying, wtf?

[@raph4el42]

Moving

[@jasonwiley798]

Way too much foreplay( pardon the pun)

[@tarzan8347777]

WWII made some "angels", who later on turned out to be no nobler than Hitler

[@author7027]

that means that Germans were high cultured people. did Arabs ever try to play a recital to Jews?

[@hubertmatos5920]

This a typical jew during the slave trade "Aaron Lopez expanded his trade beyond the North American coastline and by 1757 had major interests in the West Indian trade.[7] He also sent ships to Europe and the Canary Islands.[8] Between 1761 and 1774, Lopez was involved in the slave trade.[9] While The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews describes Lopez as "Newport's leading participant in the Black Holocaust", historian Eli Faber determined Lopez

[@patriotpatriot473]

Horse Hockey.

[@goodtutt4733]

Video needs a narrator. 👎

[@szaki]

Click bait, nothing here to see !

[@georgimavrodinov4500]

I know, there're a lot off stupid videos on "you tube" and this one is one of them

[@bobmarshall3700]

The music went on and on, as did the titles........ Zzzzzzzz

[@alwaessurius8498]

Just one more of the many of Jewish stories. Kol Nidri is the absolving of any vow, oath pledge, contract. "All vows, obligations, oaths, and anathemas, whether called 'ḳonam,' 'ḳonas,' or by any other name, which we may vow, or swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement until the next (whose happy coming we await), we do repent. May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void, and made of no effect; they shall not bind us nor have power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obligations shall not be obligatory; nor the oaths be oaths. This they say is done for the Day of Atonement. However this is wrong. As God does not relieve anyone from a vow, or oath made to him", only of a woman if her husband says she will not do it at the time she made the vow. For It is written: You shall perform your vow, for good or for evil. Not fulfilling a vow/oath is taking His name in vain, as an oath is made in God's name. Therefor to claim absolution from a vow/oath is sin, and is not possible = This is one of the many things that the Jew has added to God's word. The Day of Atonement was at the end of the year in the 7th month, it was a day to afflict the soul, and offer a offering of fire for the sins of the entire house of Jacob-only. And on the year of Jubile- a trumpet was sounded to announce the year of Jubile and all DEBTS were forgiven all people, NOT VOWS - and servants - not slaves -where to be freed from servitude obligations, and house were returned to the borrowers, etc.

[@pilierofq]

PIANO??? NO NO NO !!

[@jackobtthoronn5388]

He should go to the Gaza strip.. And play to the Palestinians...

[@MarkTheRealtorNY]

Click bait. Waiting for the violin solo that never happened. What a sham of video. Wasting our precious time. YOu could have presented the paragraph of the story and we'd read it in 2 minutes or less, but you wanted to hold us riveted for over 6 and a half minutes. To read a few words slowly splayed out on a screen by screen basis. ...and not hear a violin you promised,. May Hashem forgive you

[@nellamaharg]

Why did the prisoners not fight back? I would if i was there

[@alexie832]

Well some did but some were so weak due to starvation that they couldn't.

[@crankjazz]

They did and were killed for it.

[@tonyvillamotte4339]

Sob sob sob. At least as many non-Jews as Jews died during the Holocaust/Shoah. Why do we get all these videos about Jews all the time? Personally, I'd like to see some documentaries about Russian POWs in German camps, massacres perpetrated against the Yugoslav anti-Nazi forces, the Greeks who suffered after their entire country was taken over by the Nazis, and about Poles, who lost the largest proportion of their population of any nation in WW II. Give me a break from this sentimental drivel that's nothing but propaganda to make people feel sorry for Jews while zionist-supremacist apartheid Israel is perpetrating atrocities against civilian Palestinians.

[@NZfabrock]

Look who runs Hollywood, does it surprise you.

[@Karen-dk1ec]

You are an ignorant, uneducated Anti-Semitic a++hole. You know nothing of factual history, but spread hate. Jews have never said they are the only ones who have suffered. There were twice as many Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust than non-Jews. Jews are not looking for the your sympathy. We don't need it since we know who we are. You are so stupid about the Israeli/Palestinian issue. It's a waste replying to people like you since you have nothing intelligent to say

[@airdogr3438]

@@Karen-dk1ec Jews are not looking for your sympathy. Mmmm. Just your money huh?

[@Karen-dk1ec]

@@airdogr3438 You are on the list of utterly stupid, uneducated, bigoted Anti-Semite. You are hopeless like the rest of the people who believe in baseless falsehoods. Anytime the words, Jewish, or Israel is mentioned on KZbin, I can count on rabid Anti-Semetism. It's a waste of time engaging w/ people like you

[@Karen-dk1ec]

There are movies and documentaries on different aspects of WWII & Holocaust. An educated person can find information.

[@lenorevardi9713]

Maybe hearing an actual violin might be appropriate...! Instead of some insipid piano music