After being sent to the Nazi death camp in 1943, Anita Lasker survived by playing in its women's orchestra. In 1996, she spoke to the BBC about her ordeal.

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"Music was played to accompany the ... Lasker's parents couldn't find a cello tutor in Breslau who would teach a Jewish child. She was sent to Berlin to study, but had to rush back to her parents ...

Hermann was born in Budapest to middle-class Jewish parents ... in 1923 to pursue music. Critics at the time had labelled him ...

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She found a wonderful cello teacher in William Pleeth (who ... whose mother was Jewish, and whose music was banned in 1942. My mother says that the Nazis tried to kill everybody and everything ...

He studied cello in Milan ... to live with a family in Milan to study music. The following year, the couple was jailed for violating the Nazis’ anti-Jewish laws. They were sanctioned for ...