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Video: The feat of violinist Musi - a Jewish boy who made the fascist executioners shudder
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
He had thin long fingers and could have become a great surgeon or musician. But his life ended in November 1942. The little violinist has accomplished one single feat in his life. This feat lasted less than a minute, but not only residents of the Krasnodar village, but the whole country remembered it for many decades. Musya Pinkenson won his little battle with the Nazis, and the violin became his weapon.
Little prodigy
Abram Pinkenson, whom his relatives affectionately called Musya (short for the diminutive “Abramusya”, once invented by his mother), was born in the Romanian town of Balti. The boy came from a respected medical dynasty, his father and grandfather worked as doctors at a local hospital. However, the boy's main passion was playing the violin, for which he had a great talent, so, most likely, he would have turned out to be not a doctor, but an excellent musician. From an early age, Musya was considered a child prodigy and even local newspapers wrote about him.
In 1941, when the war broke out, Musya's family was evacuated to the village of Ust-Labinskaya in the Krasnodar Territory, where his father, Vladimir Borisovich, was sent to a Soviet military hospital. He rescued the wounded, and his 10-year-old son entertained them by playing the violin. The fighters loved Musya very much and each time they looked forward to his arrival …
And the next year, the Nazis broke into the village and seized the hospital. Vladimir Borisovich did not leave his wounded. And when the invaders demanded from the doctor that now he would treat their soldiers, he refused. The Nazis arrested the doctor, his entire family, and other local Jews.
Speech to the executioners
In November 1942, it was decided to shoot all those arrested. To intimidate the local population, the Nazis decided to make an exemplary execution out of this: Jews and other "unreliable" were taken to the banks of the Kuban and lined up in front of the moat, while the rest were driven here from all around as "spectators". In deathly silence, watching the horror of the doomed people, the locals stood and feared no less than the condemned. Standing in the crowd of Jews awaiting execution, Musya held his little violin tightly to his chest.
The first Vladimir Borisovich could not resist - he began to beg the executioners to spare his son. And then he was killed. Musya's mother, Fenya Moiseevna, rushed to her husband, and also fell from the bullet. Silence hung over the river again.
And then the 11-year-old Musya gave a voice, in front of whom the parents had just been shot:
- Can I play the violin before I die? He asked the German officer calmly.
Out of surprise, the Nazis laughed and condescendingly agreed. Then something happened that the Germans had never expected. Instead of the pitiful music that a child begging for mercy could have performed at such a moment, the shrill sounds of the "Internationale" erupted throughout the entire district.
Both the local residents who were standing at a distance, and the Jews sentenced to death, at first timidly, and then more and more confidently and confidently picked up the melody and sang. This chorus of unconquered people shocked the fascists and made them horrified. However, only for a few moments. Coming out of their stupor, they yelled for the boy to stop playing immediately. However, he continued. Then the Germans began to frantically shoot the little musician. The sound of the violin died down only after he fell.
Of course, Musya could not save others from execution, and the execution was eventually brought to an end. But he instilled in the inhabitants of the village the belief that the Nazis could be broken - even if for a moment. But it was on this faith and the will to victory that the war was won. So we can say that Musya is the prototype of any Soviet soldier.
A photograph of Musya has survived. In the picture he has a confident and bold look - there is no doubt that this is how he looked at the executioners in the last minutes of his life.
The monument to the boy violinist can be seen on Naberezhnaya Street in Ust-Labinsk (after the war the village received the status of a city) - on the very bank of the Kuban River. Nearby there is a mass grave, in which, together with the hero violinist, about four hundred more civilians who were shot in 1942 are buried.
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