‘It was an escape into excellence’: How music saved the life of a teenage Jewish cellist in 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 needed a cello player.

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