Now it makes sense.
I wondered why Israelis were so upset by this story from The Guardian.

Of all the revelations that have rocked the Israeli army over the past week, perhaps none disturbed the public so much as the video footage of soldiers forcing a Palestinian man to play his violin. . . . The rightwing Army Radio commentator Uri Orbach found the incident disturbingly reminiscent of Jewish musicians forced to provide background music to mass murder. "What about Majdanek?" he asked, referring to the Nazi extermination camp.

I remember a scene in Schindler's List (Oh my God, I spelled that right on the first try) where this was depicted. Now I'm torn.