The lost cellos of Lev Aronson - Frances Padorr Brent

Brent explores the fate of Lev Aronson, first cellist for the Latvian orchestra, and the prized instruments that passed through his hands as a way of understanding what was lost and preserved during the Holocaust. Aronson's life leads him through the Russian revolution, pogroms and Cold War Berlin to the United States, and he is forced to reshape his identity in each chapter of his life in order to survive. A moving portrait of being Jewish in Russia, the brutalities of the camps and the status of refugees in Berlin and America.