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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
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.
Top Filmography
7.1
The Commandant's Shadow
2024 // MOVIE
7.1
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
2013 // MOVIE
6.4
Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz
2013 // MOVIE
7.3
The Last Survivors
2019 // MOVIE
7.0
Belsen: Our Story
2020 // MOVIE
8.0
The Last Musician of Auschwitz
2025 // MOVIE
7.0
aspekte
1965 // TV
9.0
Music, War and Revolution
2018 // TV
0.0
Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
2022 // MOVIE
0.0
Wir sind Juden aus Breslau
2016 // MOVIE
0.0
We Want the Light
2004 // MOVIE
0.0
Music and Power
2018 // MOVIE
0.0
Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
2025 // MOVIE
0.0
West.art am Sonntag
2003 // TV