
Person
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Acting · Born 1925-07-17 · Wrocław, Poland
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.
Known for
aspekte
Self
West.art am Sonntag
Self

Music, War and Revolution
Self

Belsen: Our Story
Self - Survivor
Music and Power
Self

We Want the Light
Self

The Commandant's Shadow
Self

The Last Musician of Auschwitz
Self

Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
Self

Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
Self
Filmography
- 2025The Last Musician of AuschwitzSelf
- 2025Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and TragedySelf
- 2024The Commandant's ShadowSelf
- 2022Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of AuschwitzSelf
- 2020Belsen: Our StorySelf - Survivor
- 2019The Last SurvivorsHolocaust Survivor
- 2018Music, War and RevolutionSelf
- 2018Music and PowerSelf
- 2016Wir sind Juden aus BreslauSelf
- 2013The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My LifeSelf
- 2013Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of AuschwitzSelf - Concentration Camp Survivor
- 2004We Want the LightSelf
- 2003West.art am SonntagSelf
- 1965aspekteSelf
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