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Lunchtime Meeting - 12.45pm - Speaker Natalie Cumming

Mon, Oct 29th 2018 at 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm

David Lloyd's speaker today will be Natalie Cumming who has just written a book "The Fiddle". This true story about a violin was the subject of a BBC2 programme “The Repair Shop” shown on September 3 2018 - MEETING IN THE RESTAURANT TODAY


The Fiddle is 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 in 1917, from St. Petersburg to Odessa and safety in the UK. Abraham’s skill on the violin earns them food and lodgings, as they struggle on foot through the freezing Russian winter.

The violin passes to Rosa, Abraham’s 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 Women’s 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.

Rosa’s 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 60’s & 70’s.

Finally, the violin comes to his daughter Natalie, who has written her family’s extraordinary story, lest the world should ever forget global events, against which the journey of this beautiful instrument is told.

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This sounds like an interesting and very personal talk - remember there will be only 58 shopping days left until Christmas.

Why not try to catch Natalie on 'The Repair Shop' on September 3rd?

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