How is the violin that Juliek plays symbolic?

Juliek
is a Polish prisoner and violinist, who
befriends Elie in the concentration camp and laments
that the Nazis prohibit
him from playing Beethoven. In chapter six, the Jewish prisoners arrive
at
the Gleiwitz camp after marching through the treacherous snow all night and crowd into
a
packed barrack, which is full of dead bodies. During the frightening
experience, Elie hears
Juliek among the crowd as he expresses his concerns
that his delicate violin will break from the
weight of the prisoners. Elie
then loses consciousness, and when he awakes, he hears Juliek
playing
Beethoven in the dark barrack among the dead bodies. Elie writes,

"He was playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto.
Never
before had I heard such a beautiful sound...All I could hear was the
violin, and it was as if
Juliek's soul had become his bow. He was playing his
life. His whole being was gliding over the
strings. His unfulfilled hopes.
His charred past, his extinguished future. He played that which
he would
never play again" (Wiesel, 120).

After

examining the significance of Juliek's violin, one could argue that the delicate
instrument
symbolically represents civility, the indomitable human spirit,
and the beauty of art, which
will not be suppressed. In the middle of a
horrific, dreadful environment, Juliek's violin
brings peace to the chaotic,
miserable . When Juliek plays his violin, it is an expression of
his soul,
which has not been destroyed by the Holocaust. The fact that Juliek can make
beautiful
music during such a trying time reveals the indomitable human
spirit and the fact that the arts
will never be fully censored or suppressed.