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 Summary of Holocaust survivor reunited with cello of musician father murdered by Nazis
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The article tells the story of Pál Hermann, a Hungarian-born cellist and composer who was murdered by the Nazis in 1944. His daughter, Cornelia Hermann, never gave up hope of finding the instrument, which was stolen by the Nazis and later sold. After a new book by Dr. Kate Kennedy was published, a cellist named Jian Wang recognized the cello and tracked it down to the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Dusseldorf, where it was loaned to a star student. Cornelia Hermann, now 92, will have the opportunity to see the instrument being played at the Wigmore Hall in London.