Olga Warburg collection

<strong style="text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff0000; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> 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.</strong> 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. 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