By Lilly Maier, Prins Fellowship (2025-2026) Anita Lasker-Wallfisch: The Cellist of Auschwitz At over one hundred years old, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is the last living member of the Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was born Anita Lasker in 1925 in Breslau, a city that was German at the time but is part of Poland today. She grew up in an educated Jewish family. Anita started playing…
By Ari Winer, Reading Room CLIP Intern Young Victims: Child Survivors of the Holocaust By the end of the Holocaust, over 1.5 million children were slaughtered at the hands of the Nazi Party and its collaborators. In ghettos, children were often killed by starvation or disease. In concentration camps, the majority were immediately sent to gas chambers or shot along with their families. However,…
Today: International Holocaust Remembrance Day From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website: “In 2005 the UN General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, every member state of the UN has an obligation to honor the victims of the Nazi era and to develop educational programs to help prevent future…
