Overview
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Known For
Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz,...
The Last Survivors
Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors...
Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz
The actor, Warwick Davis, presents the story of the Owicz...
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.