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Original Title:	El violí d'Auschwitz
ISBN:	0553807781 (ISBN13: 9780553807783)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Auschwitz(Poland)

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An international sensation now available in English for the first time, The Violin of Auschwitz is the unforgettable story of one man’s refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history’s greatest atrocity.

In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvelously pitched violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by her instrument. When he asks her how she obtained it, she reveals the remarkable story behind its origin...

Imprisoned at Auschwitz, the notorious concentration camp, Daniel feels his humanity slipping away. Treasured memories of the young woman he loved and the prayers that once lingered on his lips become hazier with each passing day. Then a visit from a mysterious stranger changes everything, as Daniel’s former identity as a crafter of fine violins is revealed to all. The camp’s two most dangerous men use this information to make a cruel wager: If Daniel can build a successful violin within a certain number of days, the Kommandant wins a case of the finest burgundy. If not, the camp doctor, a torturer, gets hold of Daniel. And so, battling exhaustion, Daniel tries to recapture his lost art, knowing all too well the likely cost of failure.

Written with lyrical simplicity and haunting beauty—and interspersed with chilling, actual Nazi documentation—The Violin of Auschwitz is more than just a novel: It is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of beauty, art, and hope to triumph over the darkest adversity.

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Title	:	The Violin of Auschwitz
Author	:	Maria Àngels Anglada
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 109 pages
Published	:	August 31st 2010 by Bantam (first published 1983)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. World War II. Holocaust. Music. Fiction. War

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Maria Angels Anglada was an award winning Catalans author. Her worked garnered her many prizes during her life, including the highest writing award bestowed in Catalan. Her novella The Violin of Auschwitz details the true story of how a violin maker named Daniel used his skill as a luthier to escape the clutches of the death camps. Daniel came from a religious family in Cracow that before the war had been violin makers. When the Germans took over Poland and forced all Jews into ghettos, Daniel's

It looks like an old fashion holocaust memoir, but it is relatively moving and better than some famous holocaust memoirs. If you've read Night, If This Is a Man, it will be much easier to understand and feel the content. The author didn't describe Dr. Mengele, instead, many familiar occasions in the camp that suppose to be mentioned, the author portrayed them in another way. Basically, this book is well written. The author knows when to write a shining sentence to lighten the whole chapter.

I absolutely loved this book, I found it very moving and touching, the amount of passion that the author puts in to this book you can feel in every sentence. The story grabbed my attention straight away as I love reading this type of novel, the story behind the violin nearly brought me to tears.This book is one that really captured my attention and I found that it was very quick to read, but it was very detailed and would have loved to have more of the story, I definitely didn't want it to end.



This is a tender little book, very moving and enlightening although it is barely more than 100 pages. I find that no matter how much I have read or how much I think I know about the Holocaust and its perpetrators, there always seems to be some new horrible behavior or event to learn about with regard to the heinous actions that were perpetrated upon a helpless people simply because of what they believed and/or how they worshiped. I believe sincerely that it is the reason why we must never

Maria Angels Anglada was an award winning Catalans author. Her worked garnered her many prizes during her life, including the highest writing award bestowed in Catalan. Her novella The Violin of Auschwitz details the true story of how a violin maker named Daniel used his skill as a luthier to escape the clutches of the death camps. Daniel came from a religious family in Cracow that before the war had been violin makers. When the Germans took over Poland and forced all Jews into ghettos, Daniel's

This was an excellent look into the horrors of life in a concentration camp. Daniel, a luthier by trade, is sent to Auschwitz. Because of his "carpentry" skills, he is retained as worker rather than sent to the gas chambers or killed at the whim of one of the SS. The writing is clean. It would be easy to exploit the shock factor in a book like this, but the story is told matter-of-factly (is that a word?) so that the reader learns of the atrocities but can still focus on the plot and character.