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.

Known For

The Commandant's Shadow

The Last Musician of Auschwitz

Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz

Music, War and Revolution

Belsen: Our Story

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

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

We Want the Light

All Movies (11)

• The Last Musician of Auschwitz2025 · as Self
• Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy2025 · as Self
• The Commandant's Shadow2024 · as Self
• Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz2022 · as Self
• Belsen: Our Story2020 · as Self - Survivor
• The Last Survivors2019 · as Holocaust Survivor
• Music and Power2018 · as Self
• Wir sind Juden aus Breslau2016 · as Self
• The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life2013 · as Self
• Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz2013 · as Self - Concentration Camp Survivor
• We Want the Light2004 · as Self

All TV Shows (3)

• Music, War and Revolution2018 · as Self
• West.art am Sonntag2003 · as Self
• aspekte1965 · as Self