THE LAST MUSICIAN OF AUSCHWITZ

To mark the 80^th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the extraordinary story of cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch alongside other victims of the camp who played and created music amidst the terrors of the Holocaust.

The film tells how, amid the most brutal and dehumanising situations, music could be both a lifeline and a means of resistance. An interview with the now 99-year-old Lasker-Wallfisch, the only living musician to have played in one of the camp orchestras, frames the documentary. 

The Last Musician of Auschwitz also highlights the stories of four other musicians from all over Europe - Ilse Weber, Szymon Laks, Adam Kopycinski and Martin Rosebery D'Arguto - all now dead but whose music and words live on, and features powerful new performances of their work, filmed in the environs of the former camp.