Abram Pinkenson

Abram "Musia" Vladimirovich Pinkenson (Russian: Абрам "Муся" Владимирович Пинкенсон; 5 December 1930  November 1942 in Ust-Labinsk) – was a 11-year old Soviet violinist and a pioneer hero who was shot and murdered by German Nazi soldiers during World War II. He was later posthumously awarded with the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. He was shot and killed around November 1942 in the village of Ust-Labinsk in Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, for courageously refusing to stop playing The Internationale (Anthem of the Soviet Union) on his violin for a group of Soviet civilians, including Russians and Jews, while they were being taken and led to a open pit by German soldiers to be executed there in a mass shooting. Both of Abram Pinkenson's parents were among the group of people rounded up and taken to be executed by the German soldiers because they were Jews.

In 1971, an animated Soviet film, entitled The Pioneer's Violin produced and made by director Boris Stepantsev was about the courage and murder of the 11-year old young and courageous Soviet violinist and pioneer Abram Pinkenson and his recognition. Currently, on the mountainous hills of the village of Ust-Labinsk, there lays a monument dedicated to Abram Pinkenson and his great courage and bravery and violin which he used against the German soldiers, and was shot and murdered for. The fact that Abram Pinkenson was Jewish, which is another reason why the German soldiers shot and murdered him, is completely omitted in the film, which is normal for a film from the time period in the Soviet Union.

Category:1930 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:Russian people