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Biography
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch MBE is a German-British cellist, and a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Wallfisch co-founded the English Chamber Orchestra and she has been honoured and thanked by the British and German governments for her work. Her portrait is part of the Royal Collection.
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Awards & recognition
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany · 2020
- German National Prize · 2019
- Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia · 2018
- Member of the Order of the British Empire
