Manfred James Lachmann

Manfred Lachmann was born as the son of Leopold and Rosa Lachmann on July 30, 1912 in Filehne, in what was then the province of Posen (now Poland).
It is not known whether he came to Berlin with his parents or before. He learned the tailoring trade in Berlin. According to his daughter Deborah Lakemann, he probably initially lived with his aunt Bertha Lachmann at Elsässer Straße 54.
The last freely chosen address was Bergengruenstrasse 57, where Manfred lived with his parents. Manfred Lachmann was arrested along with his father Leopold on July 27, 1938. He was held in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until November 21, 1938 with prisoner number 12199.
Immediately after his release from prison, he emigrated to the USA and arrived in Los Angeles on December 25, 1938. It can therefore be assumed that his parents and he had been preparing for this emigration for a long time. Manfred Lachmann took the name Fred J. Lakemann in the USA.
In 1948 he married Ilse Kornberg, who had emigrated to the USA with her mother in 1945 after a long ordeal, and had two daughters with her.
Fred Lakemann died on February 21, 2005 in Enrico, California; his wife Ilse had already died in 1986.
Stolpersteine are being laid in Hanover for members of the Kornberg family.