Olga Warburg collection
http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/gb-003348-wl2218 an entity of type: Record
Olga Warburg was born in Hamburg (b. Nov 17 1898), the eldest of five children of Abraham Samuel (Aby S.) Warburg and his second wife Elly Jeanette. She married Friedrich Lachmann in 1919 but divorced in 1931. She spent the duration of the Second World War in semi-hiding in Amsterdam, where she wrote extensive memoirs about her childhood in Hamburg and her family history.
WL2218
Olga Warburg collection
2 boxes
The collection comprises extensive childhood memoirs written by Olga Lachmann née Warburg during her time in Amsterdam, as well as other family papers including business correspondence of her father regarding ‘the Jewish question’, and records of Olga’s family.
Open
Currently, only the digital images of the letters on the last great ‘famine’ winter in Amsterdam (1944-5) are available (ref. no. 2218/7). Readers should book a reading room terminal to access them.