Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Born: July 17, 1925
in Wrocław, Poland
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 for Anita Lasker-Wallfisch...

The Commandant's Shadow
Title: The Commandant's Shadow
Character: Self
Released: May 29, 2024
Type: Movie
While Hans Jurgen Höss enjoyed a happy childhood in the family villa at Auschwitz, Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was trying to survive the notorious concentration camp. At the heart of this film is the historic and inspiring moment – eight decades later – when the two come face-to-face. This is the first time the descendant of a major war criminal meets a survivor in such a private and intimate setting, Anita’s London living room. Together with their children, Kai Höss and Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, the four protagonists explore their very different hereditary burdens.
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Music in Nazi Germany - The maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz
Title: Music in Nazi Germany - The maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz
Character: Self
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.
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The Last Survivors
Title: The Last Survivors
Character: Holocaust Survivor
Released: January 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and following them over the course of a year as they embark upon personal and profound journeys.
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Music and Power
Title: Music and Power
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Music is not "just" music. It can have immense power in good or evil. This documentary by Maria Stodtmeier and Isa Willinger highlights interesting and very current themes about the links between music and politics.
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Wir sind Juden aus Breslau
Title: Wir sind Juden aus Breslau
Character: Self
Released: November 12, 2016
Type: Movie
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The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Title: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Character: Herself
Released: May 31, 2013
Type: Movie
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 discusses the importance of music, laughter, and how to have an optimistic outlook on life.
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Warwick Davis: The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz
Title: Warwick Davis: The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz
Character: Self - Concentration Camp Survivor
Released: March 24, 2013
Type: Movie
The actor, Warwick Davis, presents the story of the Owicz family and their ordeal during WWII. From a successful musical act to being tortuously experimented on by Dr. Josef Mengele in a concentration camp. This story might have been lost to history if it weren't for the family's diminutive size, which made them both a novelty as well as an inspiration.
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We Want the Light
Title: We Want the Light
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 2004
Type: Movie
The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in this documentary from the BBC and Opus Arte. We Want the Light brings together harrowing tales from Holocaust survivors with performances of music by such legendary composers as Mahler, Bach, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Interviews with: Alice Sommer Herz, Jacques Stroumsa, Evgeny Kissin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Toby Perlman, Michael Haas, Elyakim Ha’etzni, Norman Lebrecht, Margaret Brearley, Paul Lawrence Rose, Daniel Barenboim, Yirmiyahu Yovel, Uri Toeplitz & Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Featuring: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Cologne Cathedral Children’s Choir & Cologne Opera Chorus.
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Title: West.art am Sonntag
Character: Self
Released: February 23, 2003
Type: TV