Music in Nazi Germany: The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz

Name: Music in Nazi Germany: The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
Uploaded: 2022
Duration: 1 h 26 min

20221h 26mHD★ 8.4Arts & Culture

Editor's Take

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a cellist who survived Auschwitz in its women's orchestra, is the film's living center and its witness. Her testimony shows how music could become an instrument of survival inside the camp, and how memory outlasts the event itself. Weaving her account into the broader history of music under the regime, it stays intimate where the subject could easily turn abstract.

This moving documentary follows Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a Jewish cellist and one of the last surviving members of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Her story reveals how music became a means of survival inside the death camp, and how memory endures long after. The film weaves personal testimony with the wider history of music under the Nazi regime. Deeply affecting and important, it honors a witness whose voice carries the weight of history. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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