Lasker family papers

According to the online description, this collection contains the papers of the Lasker family, a Jewish family from Breslau (Wroclaw). The parents, Alfons and Edith Lasker, were deported in 1942 leaving their two daughters Anita and Renate behind. Both sisters survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps but their parents perished. Included are an inventory of personal belongings and related correspondence. The inventory was drawn up on the day of the parents’ deportation in April 1942. The correspondence concerns missing items and arrangements for the children to be moved to a home for Jewish children. See also WL1661 Anita Lasker-Wallfisch: correspondence and papers; WL1040 Anita Lasker-Wallfisch: Copy personal correspondence (1939-1945); 76025 ‘Inherit the truth: 1939-1945: the documented experiences of a survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen’; 70532 ‘Inherit the truth’ – broadcast of her book; 20335 [Memoirs:] 1925-1946 told by Anita: family photographs: Part 2: Letters 1939-1942 and 1945-1946