What Happened?

Letters to Uncle Arthur, August 1945 Letters written post-war to Lotte’s uncle Arthur Lenk; Arthur was Greta’s brother. The first letter was written by Lotte to her uncle Arthur in Buenos Aires on August 9th, 1945. The next letter was written and hand-signed by Fritzi Hofrichter, fiancĂ©e of Lotte’s Uncle Egon, on August 10th, 1945.…

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Emigration

Like many survivors who returned home to find their families and lives in shatters, Lotte and Ernest determined that they could no longer remain in Europe. They sought to reunite with Lotte’s surviving sister Nelly, who had spent the war years as a refugee in Shanghai with her husband Hugo and baby daughter. Lotte’s sister…

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