Lotte Strauss Collection. 1868, 1933-2005 bulk: 1933-2005

The Lotte Strauss Collection documents Lotte and Herbert Strauss’ efforts to leave Germany, their experience in Switzerland and the fate of Lotte Strauss’ family during World War II. The collection includes clippings, eye-witness accounts, personal and official correspondence, vital, and immigration documents, lists, photographs, audio-visual materials, reports, and manuscripts.Lotte Strauss, neé Schloss, was born on August 2nd 1913 in Braunschweig, Germay. During World War II, between 1942 and 1943 she was in hiding in Berlin. In 1943, along with her future husband, Herbert Strauss, she escaped to Switzerland, with the help of her uncle, Ludwig Schöneberg. - In 1946 the Strauss family immigrated to the United States and settled in New York where Lotte Strauss held a position of a secretary at the New York State League of Women Voters. - In 1997, Lotte Strauss published Over the Green Hill: Personal Memoir, Germany 1913-43.digitize