Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

He can degrade the artist, but he cannot change art." End quote.

Cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp because her musical skills were desired, testified to this reality.

Asked in twenty fifteen in a BBC interview if the music she played there was still inextricably linked with her experience, she replied, quote, "You can't taint music.

The music is untouchable.