Henry Lasker papers
Extent and Medium
folders
10
10 microfiche,
Creator(s)
- Henry Lasker
Biographical History
Henry Lasker was born in Lithuania on 15 July 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1886. He became the first Jewish lawyer in Springfield, Mass., and was involved in city politics and Jewish affairs. Lasker died 10 Dec. 1953.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The Lasker papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Louise Nathan in 1989. Louise is the daughter of Henry Lasker.
Scope and Content
Includes various materials concerning Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust, the suffering of Jews through history, and atrocities toward Jews in the Soviet Union and Poland. Also included is the November 1928 report of the Constituent Convention of the Federation of American Jews of Lithuanian Descent. The report discusses the persecution of Jews in Lithuania. See RG lists for RG-10.01701 through RG-10.017*09 titles.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Lasker, Henry.
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Kalvarija (Lithuania)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Poland.
- Shtetls--Russia.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Shtetls--Poland.
- Antisemitism.
- Soviet Union.
- Shtetls--Lithuania.
- Atrocities.
- Jews--Lithuania.
- Jews--Russia.
- Jews--Poland.
- Children.
- Dubí (Czech Republic)
- Russia.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.