us-005578-irn514045
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Charlotte Alexander (1910-1999?, née Lichtendorf) was born on 22 January 1910 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany to Regina and Emmanuel Lichtendorf. She had one brother. Her parents owned a store in in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. She married Herbert Alexander (1902-1946) in 1937 in Germany and they lived in Leipzig. During Kristallnacht Herbert was arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. After his release, the Alexanders fled Germany and immigrated to Shanghai, China. Herbert was a doctor and practiced medicine at a hospital run by the American Presbyterian Mission during the war. Herbert died of natural causes in 1946 and Charlotte immigrated to the United States in 1947. She settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and later remarried.
has beginning date: 1938-01-01
has end date: 1941-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had some members with language: zho
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 43
has or had subject: 701
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn514045
record resource extent: folder 1
record resource structure: Arrangement of collection is chronological
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Charlotte Alexander (later Charlotte Sonnenberg) and her husband Herbert Alexander, and consists of a postcard written by Herbert to Charlotte during his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp following Kristallnacht, identification cards of Charlotte’s from Leipzig, Germany and Shanghai, China, and a photograph of Herbert’ tombstone in Shanghai.
title: Charlotte Sonnenberg papers