Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

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.

  • Title : Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
  • Popularity : 0.711
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1925-07-17
  • Place of Birth : Wrocław, Poland
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Movies

  • 2022
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    Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
    Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz

    1 2022 HD

    The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the...

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  • 2016
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    Wir sind Juden aus Breslau
    Wir sind Juden aus Breslau

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2024
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    The Commandant's Shadow
    The Commandant's Shadow

    8 2024 HD

    While Hans Jurgen Höss enjoyed a happy childhood in the family villa at Auschwitz, Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was trying to survive...

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  • 2004
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    We Want the Light
    We Want the Light

    1 2004 HD

    The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in...

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  • 1970
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    The Last Musician of Auschwitz
    The Last Musician of Auschwitz

    1 1970 HD

    Tells the extraordinary story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch who, along with other victims of Auschwitz, played and created music amidst the terrors of...

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  • 2013
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    The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
    The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

    7 2013 HD

    The story of Alice Herz-Sommer, a German-speaking Jewish pianist from Prague who was, at her death, the world's oldest Holocaust survivor. She...

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  • 2019
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    The Last Survivors
    The Last Survivors

    7.3 2019 HD

    Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and...

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  • 2018
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    Music and Power
    Music and Power

    1 2018 HD

    Music is not "just" music. It can have immense power in good or evil. This documentary by Maria Stodtmeier and Isa Willinger highlights interesting...

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  • 2013
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    Warwick Davis: The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz
    Warwick Davis: The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz

    6 2013 HD

    The actor, Warwick Davis, presents the story of the Owicz family and their ordeal during WWII. From a successful musical act to being tortuously...

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  • 2003
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    West.art am Sonntag
    West.art am Sonntag

    1 2003 HD

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  • 1965
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    7 1965 HD

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