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Did you know... that violinist Hellmut Stern(pictured), whose family escaped Nazi Germany to Harbin, China, worked for 23 years to achieve his dream of a Berlin Philharmonic tour of Israel?
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Do we know specifically when he fled from Berlin to Harbin, and is there a reference for it? The dates for The Holocaust were 1941-1945 according to its article, so if he left Germany before 1941 then he may not have witnessed and survived the Holocaust. Gerda Arendt, maybe you can help with this? - Indefensible (talk) 02:05, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
If he moved in 1938/9, does that qualify him to be a Holocaust survivor/witness? As noted above, the Holocaust's article states that it started in 1941, after he was already in China. Kristallnacht's article is also not clear, at one point calling it a "prelude" and at another calling it the "beginning." - Indefensible (talk) 03:23, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Can we better explain the title Saitensprünge – Erinnerungen eines leidenschaftlichen Kosmopoliten - applying Google Translate ("String jumps - memories of a passionate cosmopolitan") leaves me barely better informed. Are there allusions in the German? It seems quite wordy - is that a reflection of him? --PaulBetteridge (talk) 09:19, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Make it a footnote, English has no room for clever word-plays, it seems. You should explain Sprünge=leaps also. Big leaps China Israel U.S. Berlin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:59, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
