Lottie Wallerstein Salz papers

Lottie Wallerstein Salz (1921-1989) was born in Prague on March 3, 1921. Her father, George Wallerstein, directed a paper-producing conglomerate, and her mother was a musician. Germany invaded and occupied Prague in March 1939, and Salz was only able to attend a few lectures at the Charles University in 1940 before the Germans closed it. She and her parents were forced to wear yellow stars beginning in January 1941, and they were deported to Theresienstadt on March 8, 1942 on transport AAw. They were transferred on transport Dr to Auschwitz, where Salz was assigned prisoner number 71935 and where her father died in February 1944. In July 1944, she and her mother were transferred to Stutthof, where her mother died in January 1945. Salz survived typhus in Stutthof and forced labor in Praust. She was evacuated from Stutthof by foot in January 1945, and she escaped with a few other women. They worked as farm laborers until the area was evacuated in April 1945, and she was sent by boat from Danzig to Denmark. She recuperated in Denmark for three months before returning to Prague in August 1945. She immigrated to the United States in January 1947 and married Paul Salz. She died of cancer on October 24, 1989.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Paul Salz, widower of Lotte Wallerstein Salz.