Piano Returns to Berlin, Releasing Family Secret

This is a neat story, worth passing on.

edit: I forget not everyone is registered with the New York Times online. Here's the gist of the article:

". . . (T)he story has been a voyage of self-examination for Tessa Uys, a South African concert pianist based in London and the daughter of the German music teacher who first took the piano from Berlin to Cape Town.

"As she pored over her mother's documents last year, Ms. Uys (pronounced ace) said, she was also obliged to confront what she had always suspected about herself, a revelation for which her research into the history of her mother and the piano proved to be the key.

"Brought up in the Calvinist tradition of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, the daughter of an Afrikaner musician and organist in his local church, she was unaware of one critical fact: her mother, Helga, was Jewish."

This South African concert pianist is sending her family's piano back to Berlin to be put in the Jewish museum after discovering one of the reasons her mother moved to South Africa was because she was banned from her piano academy for being Jewish. Does that make sense? I thought it was neat to see this article after finishing In the Image.