Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
July 17, 1925 (99 years old) in 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.
Known For
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- 2024 · The Commandant's Shadow as Self
- 2022 · Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz as Self
- 2019 · The Last Survivors as Holocaust Survivor
- 2018 · Music and Power as Self
- 2016 · Wir sind Juden aus Breslau as Self
- 2013 · The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life as Herself
- 2013 · Warwick Davis: The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz as Self - Concentration Camp Survivor
- 2004 · We Want the Light as Self
- 2003 · West.art am Sonntag as Self
- 1965 · aspekte as Self
- Future · The Last Musician of Auschwitz as Self