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1 day ago · Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, Kai Hoss and Hans Jurgen Hoss in a scene from The Commandant's Shadow - Warner Bros. Pictures But, in a reflection of the symbiotic link between the two sides, Maya’s work deals not just with descendants of victims but of perpetrators too.
Jun 18, 2024 · Their path leads to a meeting with Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, known as the ‘cellist from Auschwitz,’ and her daughter Maya. It features hitherto unseen archival footage...
Jun 11, 2024 · Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was 18 years old when she was sent by prison train to Auschwitz in 1943. She credits her survival to the fact that she played cello in the death camp’s orchestra. She was 20 when she testified during the Belsen Trials against the infamous Nazi doctor Fritz Klein, among others.
1 day ago · But, in many ways, the emotional heart of the film is the two people at the other side of the equation: cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, almost 99, who survived Auschwitz by playing in the camp orchestra, and her daughter Maya, a psychotherapist so haunted by her history that she has moved to Germany “trying to reclaim stolen lives, but also my unlived life”.
Jun 11, 2024 · A parallel narrative in Daniela Volker's documentary is the story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a Jew who survived Auschwitz. As a capable cellist, she found solace in the orchestra within the camp. Following the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of the Nazi era, she relocated to the United Kingdom.
Jun 19, 2024 · The documentary captures Hans' transformative meeting with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, in Anita's London home, eighty years after the atrocities.
Jun 9, 2024 · Anita, who refused to travel to Auschwitz, offers a touching absolution to Hans, who is tormented by his discovery of the details of his father’s horrendous deeds, telling him, “It was brave ...
