Acting

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

born 1925 · Acting

60.1avg grm
2titles
4honors

Honors

4
2020Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
2019German National Prize
2018Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia
—Member of the Order of the British Empire

Bio

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.

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

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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

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born1925
known forActing
titles on site2
avg GRM60.1
honors4 · Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2020
Honors
  • 2020Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2019German National Prize
  • 2018Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • —Member of the Order of the British Empire
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

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