Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Know for: Acting
Born: 1925-07-17
Place of birth: Wrocław, Poland
Also know as:
Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz (2022)
The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the...
The Commandant's Shadow (2024)
While Hans Jurgen Höss enjoyed a happy childhood in the family villa at Auschwitz, Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was trying to survive...
We Want the Light (2004)
The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in...
The Last Musician of Auschwitz (2025)
Tells the extraordinary story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch who, along with other victims of Auschwitz, played and created music amidst the terrors of...
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013)
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...
The Last Survivors (2019)
Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and...
Music and Power (2018)
Music is not "just" music. It can have immense power in good or evil. This documentary by Maria Stodtmeier and Isa Willinger highlights interesting...
Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz (2013)
The actor, Warwick Davis, presents the story of the Owicz family and their ordeal during WWII. From a successful musical act to being tortuously...