Joe's Violin

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Joe's Violin

2016

0h 24m

6.2(19 votes)

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A 91-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor donates his violin of 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old schoolgirl from the nation’s poorest congressional district, and unexpectedly, his own.

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