Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
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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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1965 · TV
West.art am Sonntag
2003 · TV
Music, War and Revolution
2018 · TV
The Commandant's Shadow
2024 · Movie
Belsen: Our Story
2020 · Movie
The Last Survivors
2019 · Movie
Music and Power
2018 · Movie
Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz
2013 · Movie
We Want the Light
2004 · Movie
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
2013 · Movie
Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
2022 · Movie
Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
2025 · Movie