Brianna Perez, a Bronx schoolgirl, hugs Joseph Feingold at the Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls in the Bronx, New York, on June 15, 2015. Perez and Feingold were featured in an Oscar-nominated 2016 documentary, “Joe’s Violin,” about Feingold’s gift of a violin during an instrument drive in New York, which brought him some fame late in life. Perez was the first recipient of the violin. Joseph Feingold died at age 97 of complications from the new coronavirus, four weeks after his brother Alexander, 95, died of pneumonia at the same New York hospital. The brothers were Polish-born Holocaust survivors who had a difficult relationship shaped by the trauma of the war and the loss of their beloved mother and younger brother in Treblinka.

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Fri., May 15, 2020