Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
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
- Acting
- Born
- 1925-07-17 · Wrocław, Poland
Known for
- The Commandant's Shadow (2024) — Self
- The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013) — Self
- Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz (2013) — Self - Concentration Camp Survivor
- The Last Survivors (2019) — Holocaust Survivor
- The Last Musician of Auschwitz (2025) — Self
- Belsen: Our Story (2020) — Self - Survivor
- aspekte (1965) — Self
- Music, War and Revolution (2018) — Self
- Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz (2022) — Self
- Wir sind Juden aus Breslau (2016) — Self
- We Want the Light (2004) — Self
- Music and Power (2018) — Self
- Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy (2025) — Self
- West.art am Sonntag (2003) — Self