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