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With her exacting musical demands, the orchestra's conductor succeeded in temporarily distracting the musicians from the realities of living in an extermination camp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnita's account of her and her older sister Renate's survival of both Auschwitz and Belsen is a testament to their remarkable courage, resilience, ingenuity and luck, and it reminds us of the monstrous truth of what happened, not all that long ago, in a country not unlike our own.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-6ccf5d04=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-6ccf5d04=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-v-6ccf5d04=\"\" class=\"header-top\"\u003eAuthor bio:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-v-6ccf5d04=\"\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnita Lasker-Wallfisch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas brought up in Breslau, Silesia, the daughter of a distinguished lawyer, Alfons Lasker, whose brother Edward became a U.S. chess champion. 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