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
- Walter Lachman
- Lachman, Walter.
- Kevin Wayne
Corporate Bodies
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- New York (N.Y.)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Hanging--Latvia.
- Liepāja (Latvia)
- Abortion--Lativa--Riga.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Pskov (Russia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Riga.
- Synagogues--Latvia--Riga.
- Munich (Germany)
- Riga (Latvia)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Starvation.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.
- Forced labor--Russia.
- Typhus fever.
- Gas vans (Gas chambers)
- Prisons--Germany--Hamburg.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Anti-Jewish boycotts--Germany.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish councils--Latvia--Riga.
- Jewish orphans--Germany.
- Forced labor--Latvia.
Genre
- Oral History
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