Freed Hostage Agam Berger Given Violin

Stand for Israel  |  March 12, 2025

Ex-hostage Agam Berger was given a 130-year-old violin that belonged to a Jewish musician who perished in the Holocaust. She’s a violinist and so the owner of the violin knew he wanted to gift her this restored violin, reports The Times of Israel:

When Beck learned Berger, still in captivity, was a violinist, “I knew it had to go to her,” he said. “From the moment she returned to Israel, I did everything I could to reach her.”

As soon as Shabbat was out, Beck said, he left his home in Petah Tikva and traveled to Berger’s home in Holon to give her the instrument.

“Now, it’s in the right hands — Agam’s hands, bringing it back to life,” he told Ynet. “And on International Women’s Day, no less, this violin goes to an incredible woman and true survivor who will ensure its song never fades.”

“She told me she would practice on [the violin] and take it to the March of the Living to play there,” he added, referring to the annual ceremony at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. “That would be a real moment of closure.”