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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is a German-British cellist. A Jew deported to Auschwitz, she survived the Holocaust by playing the cello in the Birkenau concentration camp orchestra.

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Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch turns 100

She survived Auschwitz and told of witnessing the Holocaust. Now, at age 100, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is disillusioned.
HistoryJuly 16, 2025
A b/w photo shows two older women in dark dresses (C) flanked by two boys in white shirts holding musical instruments

Echoes of the Holocaust — Arts Unveiled

Stories from the Holocaust: artistic symbols of resistance, 80 years after the end of World War II.
MusicMay 17, 202526:04 min
Author Maya Lasker-Wallfisch sitting on a blue couch next to a plant.

A Jew's letter to her murdered grandparents

The daughter of Auschwitz survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch deals with trauma through letters to her late grandparents.
CultureNovember 14, 2022
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From Klezmer to Rap – the Power of Jewish Music

Persecuted in Nazi Germany and later forgotten. Encounters with Jewish musicians, past and present.
CultureFebruary 12, 202226:02 min
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Auschwitz cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch at 95

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is one of the last contemporaries who can personally tell of life at Auschwitz.
MusicJuly 17, 2020
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Holocaust-Überlebende

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and the power of music

Being able to play in the girl's orchestra at Auschwitz saved her life. Music continued to give meaning to her life.
CultureJuly 17, 202010 images
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The cellist of Auschwitz

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was forced to play cello for the guards at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
MusicSeptember 8, 201902:44 min
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World Stories – This Week's Reports

Germany: anti-Semitism fighter, Mexico: lady-killers, Yemen: needy hospitals, Iraq: finding leopards
September 7, 201912:36 min
Anita Lasker Wallfisch, an white-haired women wearing reading glasses, speaks during a moment of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism at the German Bundestag in Berlin

Bundestag commemorates Holocaust

Key moment of the ceremony was an address by Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch.
January 31, 201802:53 min
Berlin Holocaust memorial in the Bundestag

German parliament commemorates Holocaust

The Bundestag commemorated the Holocaust — for the first time with the far-right AfD in attendance.
HistoryJanuary 31, 2018