Lillian and Alexander Schachter papers

Lillian Schachter (1927-2005) was born in Subotica, Serbia to Endre and Ilona (Jelene) Lederer. Her family was forced into the local ghetto from April to June 1944 and briefly transferred to the Bàcsalmàs ghetto in Hungary. She and her mother were deported to Auschwitz in June, transferred to Langenbielau in July 1944, and liberated in May 1945. Her father also survived. She married Alexander Schachter, their daughter Edith was born in 1948, and they immigrated to the United States in November 1949 and settled in Chicago. Alexander Schachter (1922-1987) was born in Subotica, Serbia to Moritz and Ester (Etela) Schachter. He survived Hungarian labor battalions and Mauthausen concentration camp and was liberated in May 1945 at the Gunskirchen camp. His parents were killed in the Holocaust. The Lillian and Alexander Schachter papers consist of birth and marriage certificates, identification cards, immigration and naturalization certificates, and affidavits and legal correspondence documenting the Schachters’ internment in Auschwitz and Mauthausen, their immigration to the United States, and their efforts to receive restitution for damages suffered during the Holocaust including teeth that Lillian Schachter lost.