Person
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 17, 1925
- From
- 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.
Images
Credits
The Commandant's Shadow
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz
The Last Survivors
The Last Musician of Auschwitz
Belsen: Our Story
aspekte
Music, War and Revolution
Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
Wir sind Juden aus Breslau
We Want the Light
Music and Power
Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
West.art am Sonntag