Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Born: 1925-07-17 in Wrocław, Poland
Known For: Acting
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
2025
- Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy as Self
- The Last Musician of Auschwitz as Self
2024
- The Commandant's Shadow as Self
2020
- Belsen: Our Story as Self - Survivor
2019
- The Last Survivors as Holocaust Survivor
2018
- Music, War and Revolution as Self
- Music and Power as Self
2016
- Wir sind Juden aus Breslau as Self
2013
- The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life as Self
- Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz as Self - Concentration Camp Survivor
2004
- We Want the Light as Self
2003
- West.art am Sonntag as Self
1965
- aspekte as Self