Dr. Ernest Parker collection

Identifier
irn628134
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2018.486.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn628134

Extent and Medium

folders

oversize box

2

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Thomas Parker Wilhelm

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Thomas Parker Wilhelm, grandson of Ernest Parker.

Scope and Content

Binder with typescript memoir by Lothar Ernst Pollak from May 10-December 6, 1940. Details Lothar’s family’s flight beginning in Brussels, Belgium; through France, Spain and Lisbon; arriving in Cuba in December and ultimately immigrating to the United States in 1941. Lothar Pollak was born 1901 in Reichenberg [Liberec], the Czech Republic. In the 1930s, Lothar moved to Germany, where he met his wife Anna. They then moved to Austria and then Belgium for Lothar’s work. In May 1940, with their daughter Erika, they fled ultimately arriving in the United States in 1941 where they changed their name to Parker.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Mr. Thomas P. Wilhelm

Subjects

  • United States--Emigration and immigration.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.