Oral history interview with Walter Lachman
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Creator(s)
- Kevin Wayne
Biographical History
Kevin Wayne, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ID Card Project, conducted the interview with Walter Lachman on July 31, 1992.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Kevin Wayne
- Lachman, Walter.
- Walter Lachman
Corporate Bodies
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
Subjects
- Starvation.
- Pskov (Russia)
- Forced labor--Russia.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Liepāja (Latvia)
- Hanging--Latvia.
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Riga.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Forced labor--Latvia.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Gas vans (Gas chambers)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Riga (Latvia)
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Munich (Germany)
- Prisons--Germany--Hamburg.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jewish orphans--Germany.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Abortion--Lativa--Riga.
- Jewish councils--Latvia--Riga.
- Synagogues--Latvia--Riga.
- Anti-Jewish boycotts--Germany.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Typhus fever.
Genre
- Oral History