Director: Toby Trackman
Language: English, Hebrew subtitles

The Last Musician of Auschwitz
How can there be music in the worst place in the world? The Last Musician of Auschwitz reveals how music became a lifeline and form of resistance amid the Holocaust's horrors. At its center is 99-year-old cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the last living survivor from the camp orchestras, whose testimony frames this powerful documentary.
The film examines the SS’s perverse relationship with music – forcing prisoners to perform for their entertainment and accompany slave labourers, turning art into another form of torture. It also celebrates three other remarkable musicians – Ilse Weber, Szymon Laks, and Adam Kopyciński – whose compositions are brought to life in moving performances by contemporary artists, including Anita’s son Raphael Wallfisch.
The screening is in collaboration with Yad Vashem, and will be introduced by Liat Benhabib, Curator of Film and Media programs, Yad Vashem. The film will be followed by a conversation, live on stage, with Soundtrack Tel Aviv’s special guest, director Toby Trackman, hosted by documentary filmmaker Jasmine Kainy.

Total duration approx. 130 mins.

Special guest: director Toby Trackman
A Grierson winning and BAFTA nominated director based in the UK. Known for beautifully crafted cinematic films that approach every project with sensitivity, strong storytelling and creativity. Trackman has been making documentaries for over 15 years.
Before becoming a director, he was working as a Director of Photography, so he shoots most of his films himself, including projects for all the major UK broadcasters and international streamers.
His first film was nominated for a BAFTA for best Specialist Factual, and his film Stabbed won two Griersons; Best Domestic Documentary and best Presenter. He has worked with emerging and top level talent, sensitive contributors in traumatic situations, neuroscientists, billionaires and mega-stars, including, most recently, Dua Lipa, Chris Martin & Little Simz on the new Disney+ series, Camden.



Toby Trackman photo by Amy Newstead