Hier spricht Anita Lasker, eine deutsche Jüdin,' a voice says, youthful but precise. 'This is Anita Lasker speaking, a German Jew.' The recording was made on April 16, 1945, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, one day after British troops liberated the site... Lasker was a cellist in the Auschwitz women's orchestra, and she played music amid the horror... she is matter-of-fact to the end.
She occupies a modest town house in the northwestern neighborhood of Kensal Rise... When I mentioned the BBC recording, she smiled and said, 'I spoke such good German!' Her living room is crowded with books...
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