Her parents, pianist Peter Wallfisch and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch OBE, were both originally from Breslau and had emigrated to Great Britain after the Second World War.
[citation needed] After initially working with children at the Tavistock Centre in London, Lasker-Wallfisch trained as an addiction's specialist and later became a psychoanalytic psychotherapist for adults, couples, and families.
[5] Together with her mother Anita, Lasker-Wallfisch campaigns at numerous memorial events against anti-Semitism and in favor of a living culture of remembrance.
"[2] Lasker-Wallfisch's biography was well received by German reviewers, with Marta Kijowska in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung calling it "an impressive book.
"[7] Die Welt's Manuel Brug points out "with 'Letter to Breslau' Maya Lasker-Wallfisch has written a gripping family history – as well as a modern theory of memory.
"[9][10] German public broadcasting radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur remarks "The author finds a clear and touching language to break out of the devastating silence.
"[11] Alexandra Senfft (Der Freitag) calls it a powerful book that has "greatly enriched the understanding of transgenerational transmission, the perspective on multiple generations in historical contexts.