Last Musician of Auschwitz

Last Musician of Auschwitz

UK 2025, 90 mins, English

Director Toby Trackman, featuring Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

How can there be music in the worst place in the world? Told through the words of victims of the camp who played and created music during the terrors of the Holocaust, this film shows how music could be a lifeline, a way to give testimony and even a way to resist. Woven throughout are new interpretations of musical works written by victims of the camp, mainly filmed at resonant locations in the environs of Auschwitz. Between them, they touch on themes of loss, longing and cultural memory, and address head on the barbaric and murderous regime at Auschwitz.  Toby Trackman’s landmark theatrical feature documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz was a centrepiece of the BBC’s commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and is currently touring the worldwide festival circuit.