Norbert and Gloria Lachman collection

Identifier
irn502531
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0244
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502531

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Norbert Lachman

Archival History

Norbert Lachman

Acquisition

Norbert Lachman had his daughter, Sherryl Lachman Swafford, prepare the original memoir on 7 Nov. 1991. Donor sent a photocopy of the typescript to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in1992.

Scope and Content

Documents relate to the tenuous situation for Norbert Lachman and his family as Jews in Danzig the late 1930s; his subsequent experiences as a student at an ORT school in Berlin; his return to Danzig in 1939 and his memories of the situation for Jews at that time; and immigration with his family to New York by way of Berlin, Ostend, and London.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

People

  • Lachman, Norbert.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Jews--Germany.
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.
  • Antisemitism.
  • Jewish communities (ushmm)
  • Vandalism.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Synagogues.
  • Jews--Persecutions.

Genre

  • Document
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