The Cello Still Sings

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Cello Still Sings </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a vivid moving and true story of personal discovery. As a child Janet is haunted by the eerie hush surrounding her parents' experiences. </span><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1)>George and Katherine </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>two professional musicians and Holocaust survivors </span><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1)>bury the memories of who and what they were before silencing the past in order to live. </span>Music is their lifeline.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After five decades of secrets </span>Janet finally unravels her Holocaust heritage when she stumbles upon a clue. After the war <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>George performed morale-boosting programs throughout Bavaria in a twenty-member orchestra of concentration camp survivors</span><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1)>. Although Janet also becomes a cellist her father never discloses that two of the programs in 1948 were led by the legendary American maestro Leonard Bernstein. </span></p><p><br></p><p>Janet's father was more fortunate than others. When he was rounded up for hard labor narrowly missing deportation to the death camps of Auschwitz a music-loving Nazi guard gave him gloves to protect his cello-playing hands. Janet's memoir of the Holocaust is deeply personal and illuminating. <span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1)>T</span>hrough humor and colorful story-telling she weaves her parents' life into her own and captures the intensity of their life experiences. T<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>he lingering scars are healed through the sustenance and power of music and their music-making unites people from generation to generation.</span></p>