Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Acting
Born July 17, 1925 · Wrocław, Poland
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is a German born Jewish cellist and a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra in Auschwitz. She and her sister Renate were sent to Auschwitz in December 1943 on separate prison trains. During the Belsen Trial which took place from September to November 1945 Anita testified against among others the camp commandant Josef Kramer, camp doctor Fritz Klein and deputy camp commandant Franz Hössler who were all sentenced to death and hanged that year.
Films (11)
The Last Musician of Auschwitz
2025
Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
2025
The Commandant's Shadow
2024
Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
2022
Belsen: Our Story
2020
The Last Survivors
2019
Music and Power
2018
Wir sind Juden aus Breslau
2016
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
2013
Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz
2013
We Want the Light
2004