THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 3, 2022 at 07:40 JST
Author Anthony Drago, the grandson of Sergey Palchikoff, who originally owned the famed violin that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, at his home in Carmel, California, on July 19 (Daisuke Igarashi)
Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a five-part series on the “atomic-bombed violin.” The stringed instrument, once owned by a Russian, survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. It was restored a decade ago and its sound has since touched many people’s hearts across borders. [Read More]
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