Secret note found in Dachau-built ‘Violin of Hope’

During World War II, within the walls of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish prisoner secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted under harrowing circumstances — a message to the future that would remain undiscovered for more than 80 years. “Trial instrument, made under difficult conditions with no tools and materials,” the worn note read....