Berlin (Germany)
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Heinrich Loewenstein, circa 1939
A young Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein].
Heinrich Loewenstein and Ingrid Lind, 1939 May 1
Heinrich Loewenstein and Karin Steinberg, 1939 May 1
Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein] and Karin Steinberg pose together on a sidewalk in Berlin, Germany on May 1, 1939, May Day. May 1 was declared National Labour Day and adopted by the Nazi's as one of their holidays. On May 1, 1939, Hitler and other Nazi Party leaders gave speeches at Berlin's Olympic Stadium and Nazi flags were hung around Berlin. A few weeks after this photograph was taken Heinrich left Germany on the Kindertransport.
Heinrich Loewenstein's Class Portrait at the Wilsnacker Strasse Jewish School in Berlin, between 1937-1939
Class photograph of a group of school boys pose around a teacher in the courtyard of the Wilsnacker Strasse Jewish School in Berlin, Germany. Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein] kneels third from the left in the front row. The Jewish community in Berlin established the school in an abandoned apartment building on Wilsnacker Strasse after a 1937 decree that forbid Jewish children to attend German schools. The Wilsnacker Strasse school was the last Jewish school in Berlin.
Heinrich Loewenstein's Identification Card Issued by the Police in Berlin, 1939 March 31
Heinrich Loewenstein's Jewish Scout Association Membership Card, 1938
Kindertransport Travel Instructions, 1939 May 29
Letter Announcing Heinrich Loewenstein's Place on the Kindertransport, after 1939 February 20
Letter from Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children, circa 1939
Letter from the American Consulate General in Berlin, Germany, 1938 December 31
Letter from the American General Consulate in Berlin to Max Loewenstein assigning the family reserve numbers. The reserve numbers were their place on the waiting list to apply for admission to the United States. Reserve numbers 8960, 8961, and 8962 meant they would be allowed to apply for a visa sometime in 1943 or 1944.