Published: 2022
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The coin and medal collection of Mark M. Salton (born Max M. Schlessinger) and Lottie Salton (née Aronstein). Both were born in Germany. Mark's father, Felix Schlessinger was a numismatist who had conducted auctions in Berlin. The Schlessinger family first immigrated to the Netherlands in 1936, where their warehouse and library were confiscated during the German occumpation. Both of Mark Salton's parents were murdered in Auschwitz in October 1944. Mark Salton immigrated to New York in 1946 after a long period as a refugee in Europe. Lottie Salton survived the Holocaust by fleeing with her mother and brother from their hometown of Fürstenberg through Bremen. After separating from their mother, Lottie fled with her brother through Belgium, southern France, St. Cyprien (where they joined her father), and Casablanca (where they are taken to the Casbah Tadla camp in the Sahara). She arrived in the United States in 1941, two years after her flight began.
