The proceeds from the concert at the National Opera go for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
One of the reasons why the event generated an unprecedented interest is Joshua Bell’s instrument: a 300-year-old Stradivari, once belonging to the great Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman.
Click on the audio icon above to listen to the report which includes interviews with Elżbieta Penderecka of the Beethoven Association, Zygmunt Rolat, a Polish Jew now living in the United States, and the Director of the National Opera Waldemar Dabrowski.