Anne Sebba’s remarkable book draws on real-life interviews with survivors of a group that saved them – but not without a cost ...

I knew that on 24 May 1945, the surviving Jewish members of the women’s orchestra of Auschwitz, who had been sent to Belsen by their Nazi captors some months earlier, had given a Red Cross concert.

For 80 years, the haunting melodies of Auschwitz lay buried in silence, hidden among the archives of one of history’s darkest chapters. Now, for the first time, this lost music – composed by ...

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, this powerful documentary tells the story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the only surviving member of the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz. Now 99, she reveals how ...

One Auschwitz survivor insisted her daughter learnt how to play violin for one important reason, according to a British composer. Ahead of the 8th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz ...

The Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945. Anita Lasker, a Jewish teenager, managed to survive there simply because the camp orchestra ...

Anita survived Auschwitz as a cello player in the Auschwitz women’s orchestra. The orchestra would play daily as prisoners marched to work as well as playing for the SS guards whenever required.

Featuring interviews with some of the last remaining survivors of the genocide and the Auschwitz orchestra, Geyer reveals how musicians rebelled with secret melodies and forbidden notes hidden ...