The Fiddle

A true story tracing a precious violin across landscapes devastated by war and terror to safety and restoration in 21st century Britain.Abraham and his family flee the Bolsheviks from St. Petersburg to Odessa and safety in the UK. Abrahams skill on the violin earns them food and lodgings as they struggle through the freezing Russian winter. The violin passes to Rosa Abrahams daughter violinist with the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Arrested by the Nazis on Kristellnacht 1938 she is sent to Mauthausen Concentration Camp and then to Auschwitz where her musical talent sees her forced to join the Womens Orchestra and saves her life. She spends the last 5 months of the war in Belsen before testifying at the Nuremberg Trials exposing the horrors of the Nazi death camps.Rosas brother Israel inherits the violin. A celebrated musician he joins ENSA during the war entertaining the troops. Post war he investigates Nazis trying to escape trial. He forms several popular bands well-known throughout the 60s & 70s.Finally the violin comes to his daughter Natalie who has written her familys extraordinary story lest the world should ever forget global events against which the journey of this beautiful instrument is told.