Overview

• On July 17, 2025, Wigmore Hall in London hosted a public concert celebrating Anita Lasker-Wallfisch’s 100th birthday, with her daughter Maya serving as moderator.
• Lasker-Wallfisch survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen after Alma Rosé selected her for the girls’ orchestra, and she delivered one of the first eyewitness broadcasts from a liberated camp on the BBC in April 1945.
• A serious accident earlier this year has left her reliant on full-time care, but she continues to warn against rising antisemitism and right-wing extremism across Europe.
• Her 1996 memoir “Ihr sollt die Wahrheit erben” and participation in the ‘Dimensions in Testimony’ project have extended her eyewitness account to new generations.
• After the war she co-founded the English Chamber Orchestra in London and received Germany’s National Prize in 2019 and the Federal Cross of Merit First Class in 2020 for her educational work.