A life divided by borders Lotte Laserstein was born in 1898 in Preussisch Holland, within the German Empire. Her early years were shaped by a household where her father worked as a pharmacist and her mother taught piano and painted porcelain. After her father passed away when she was four, the family moved to Danzig, and later to Berlin in 1912. In Berlin, she began her formal training at a school run by her aunt, eventually entering…