Lowenstein family
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Family Photographs, 1935-1980
File
Identifier: B333.08.0013.0006
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous photographs of the Lowenstein family members (both individual and group shots), including the family after they were reunited in Pennsylvania. A number of individual photos of Maria and a few photos unknown individuals also included. Three circa 1960s black and white negatives of small children, probably Maria's grandchildren.
Dates:
1935-1980
Lowenstein Family Papers and Art
Collection
Identifier: B333
Abstract
Ernst Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein] was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925 to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. To escape Nazi brutality, he was sent on the Kindertransport to England in 1939. His parents, Dr. Max and Maria Loewenstein, and his half-sister, Karin Steinberg, remained in Berlin during World War II. Shortly after the war the family emigrated to the United States to avoid persecution. Materials in this collection include legal documents and correspondence,...
Dates:
1848-2014; Majority of material found within 1939-1948
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- Art objects 1
- Artists 1
- Baptismal certificates 1
- Berlin (Germany) 1
- Birth certificates 1
- Certificates 1
- Copy negatives 1
- Correspondence 1
- England 1
- Families 1
- Germany 1
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 1
- Identification cards 1
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) 1
- Legal instruments 1
- Letters 1
- Photographic prints 1
- Photographs 1
- Portraits 1
- Receipts (Acknowledgments) 1
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust 1
- Sound recordings 1
- Theater -- Production and direction 1
- Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery 1
- Tickets 1
- United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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