When Amnon Weinstein first heard the words "grandfather" and "grandmother" they felt foreign to him. Confusing. In the young boy's class of 35 students in Israel, only one child had grandparents.

Amnon Weinstein first encountered a violin from the Holocaust 50 years ago. He was a young violin maker in Israel, and a customer brought him an old instrument in terrible condition and wanted it ...

Dr Paul Wingfield never imagined that attending his brother-in-law's wake would lead him to authenticate a violin once owned ...

Walking into the Violins of Hope exhibition, you don’t see just instruments – you feel stories. Each violin, scarred and storied, carries with it the weight of the history and horrors of the Holocaust ...

The "Violins of Hope" we're about to hear are from a time when hope seem to be all but lost. Serena Altschul has the story: When members of the Cleveland Orchestra recently sat down to perform, they ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Holocaust-era musical instruments have traveled the world, and are now here in Chicago. They're being placed and played once again in hopes of giving new life to the music and the ...

One by one, they arrived in a Tel Aviv violin maker’s studio: broken, scratched and disfigured, as damaged as their former owners, but also cherished before the tragedy of the Holocaust irrevocably ...

Over at the University of New Mexico (UNM), a select number of students each semester have the opportunity to learn how to ...

Some violins rose in the ranks and others fell, but the new ones maintained their lead over the old. “There is certainly no evidence here to support the belief that Old Italian violins come into their ...

David Bromberg is best known as a guitar virtuoso, who has collaborated with Bob Dylan and George Harrison and fronted his own band. But he's also a collector of American violins, and his collection ...

After spending two and half hours playing around on the different instruments, six out of the ten musicians chose one of the modern violins for the hypothetical tour—and only three picked a ...