Broken Violin Symbolism

The broken violin symbolize that the last thing is beautiful in this camp. For example, Juliek played Beethoven before he died, “All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek's soul had become his bow.”(page 95) This shows that seeing people died front of his eyes, it’s was terrible, the violin is Juliek’s family in this long journey, in his last moment looking at devils and deaths, instead of play something sad, he decided to brought amazing sounds to this cemetery. In addition, his music calmed many Jews who passed away in their disappointment in God and sufferness, the silence of corpses was broken by a powerful sound of Juliek and his violin.