Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
as Self 2013
Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz
as Self - Concentration Camp Survivor 2013
The Last Survivors
as Holocaust Survivor 2019
Belsen: Our Story
as Self - Survivor 2020
The Last Musician of Auschwitz
as Self 2025
Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
as Self 2022
Wir sind Juden aus Breslau
as Self 2016
We Want the Light
as Self 2004
Music and Power
as Self 2018