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01/09/2015 GMT

The Auschwitz Cellist

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Auschwitz Cellist

How the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust by playing music.

In 1943, the cellist, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. She expected to be killed in the gas chambers, but survived because she was recruited to play in an orchestra set up by the women prisoners. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch talks to Witness about her experience and the power of music in the darkest moments in history.

PICTURE: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch in 1938 (Private Collection).

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