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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Acting
July 17, 1925

Birth Place

Wrocław, Poland

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.

Movies Played

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

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

Wir sind Juden aus Breslau thumbnail

Wir sind Juden aus Breslau

The Commandant's Shadow thumbnail

The Commandant's Shadow

We Want the Light thumbnail

We Want the Light

The Last Musician of Auschwitz thumbnail

The Last Musician of Auschwitz

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life thumbnail

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

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