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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Actor · Born July 17, 1925 · Wrocław, Poland

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Biography

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.

Acted in 1

2010s

  1. 2019

    The Last Survivors

    Holocaust Survivor

Appearances9

2020s

  1. 2025

    The Last Musician of Auschwitz

    Self

  2. Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy

    Self

  3. 2024

    The Commandant's Shadow

    Self

    78
  4. 2022

    Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz

    Self

  5. 2020

    Belsen: Our Story

    Self - Survivor

2010s

  1. 2018

    Music, War and Revolution

    Self · 1 episode

  2. 2013

    The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

    Self

  3. Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz

    Self - Concentration Camp Survivor

2000s

  1. 2004

    We Want the Light

    Self