Rare violin tests Germany s commitment to atone for its Nazi past
Felix Hildesheimers music store in Speyer, Germany. The store occupied the first floor of the building, and the Hildesheimers lived on the floors above. Via David Sand via The New York Times.
by Catherine Hickley
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- No one knows why Felix Hildesheimer, a Jewish dealer in music supplies, purchased a precious violin built by the Cremonese master Giuseppe Guarneri at a shop in Stuttgart, Germany, in January 1938. His own store had lost its non-Jewish customers because of Nazi boycotts, and his two daughters fled the country shortly afterward. His grandsons say its possible that Hildesheimer was hoping he could sell the violin in Australia, where he and his wife, Helene, planned to build a new life with their younger daughter.
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Germany’s beer paradise: Franconian Switzerland Something was going on That s when we knew something was going on, recalls Sauer, who works at the nearby Erlangen-Nuremberg University. When we placed the Christmas decorations, it must have encouraged other people, because the next time we came back, the area had turned into a regular elfin village, with some of the fairy nests containing furniture and everything.
The little houses have been decorated to attract fairies
At that point, with the village grown to about 20 elfin abodes, they hung a small sign designating the woodland Elflingen. Sauer located the farmer who owned the land to tell him what was up, but she didn t have to; he said he already knew about the growing colony, and said he wouldn t dare disturb the development. For her part, she promised to collect the decorations and doll house furniture that might be left over, whenever that is.