Ida Haendel Violin: “I am Ida Haendel“

Ida Haendel was born in Chełm, a small city in Eastern Poland, to a [Jewish] family. She took up the violin at the age of three and as a seven-year-old was admitted at the Warsaw Conservatory.[3] She later studied with Carl Flesch and George Enescu in Paris. During World War II she played in factories and for British and American troops. Her career developed after the end of World War II.[3] Her autobiography, Woman with Violin, was published in 1970. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the Britis