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Berlin (Germany)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File
Scope Note: For headings before 1949 and after 1990. Headings for 1949-1990 are found under: Berlin (Germany : East); Berlin (Germany : West). Valid for Berlin as a city and as a state.

Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:

Letter of Admittance to Wittenauer Sanatorium, 1941 September 25

 Item
Identifier: B333.02.0001.0002.00002
Abstract

Letter admitting Dr. Max Loewenstein into Wittenauer Heilstätten, Wittenauer Sanatorium, written on Wittenauer Sanatorium letterhead, addressed to Marie Loewenstein. This letter also promises transfer of the family's ration cards to her. Ration cards listed are for food, an ID card, household goods, and clothing. Shortly after Max Loewenstein was admitted, the Nazis began a major roundup of Berlin's Jews to send them to the Eastern European ghettos and concentration camps.

Dates: 1941 September 25

Letter to Dr. Lowenstein, 1928 January 28

 Item
Identifier: B333.01.0001.0001.00015
Abstract

Letter in German to Dr. Lowenstein. Mentions Halensee twice which is an area in Berlin and signed "Hearty Regards, Ludwig and Else H(?).

Dates: 1928 January 28

Lodz Ghetto, 1941

 File
Identifier: B333.03.0001.0003
Abstract

A card from Georg and Alice Loewenstein written to Marie Loewenstein and sent from the Lodz Ghetto in Poland.

Dates: 1941

Loewenstein Family Portrait, 1939 May

 Item
Identifier: B333.01.0001.0001.00007
Abstract

Left to right: Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein], Karin Steinberg, Max "Vatchen" Loewenstein, and Marie "Mautzy" Loewenstein pose for a family portrait in Berlin, Germany shortly before Heinrich left for England on the Kindertransport.

Dates: 1939 May

Loewenstein Family Portrait, circa 1929

 Item
Identifier: B333.01.01.00007
Abstract

Left to right: Max Loewenstein, Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein], Karin Steinberg, and Marie Loewenstein posed for a family portrait.

Dates: circa 1929

Loewenstein Family Portrait, 1939 May

 Item
Identifier: B333.01.01.00013
Abstract

Left to right: Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein], Karin Steinberg, Max "Vatchen" Loewenstein, and Marie "Mautzy" Loewenstein pose for a family portrait in Berlin, Germany shortly before Heinrich left for England on the Kindertransport.

Dates: 1939 May

Loewenstein Family Portrait, circa 1940

 Item
Identifier: B333.03.01.00001
Abstract

Left to right standing: Max Loewenstein, Alice Loewenstein, Marie Loewenstein, and Georg Loewenstein and, sitting in front, Ernestine Goetz Loewenstein "Grandma Omchen" pose together in front of a house, Berlin, Germany.

Dates: circa 1940

Lotte Heimann Holocaust Story, 1984

 Item
Identifier: B452.01.0001.0008
Abstract Oral history interview with Lotte Grünfeld Heimann. Lotte, born September 3, 1918 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her happy childhood in prewar Germany; her parents Leo (Eliezar) and Erna (Esther) who had emigrated from Tarnow, Poland in 1913 and were tailors; how her aspirations to become a gymnast and compete in the 1936 Olympics were dashed as Hitler came to power; her work as an apprentice at Hermann Tietz department store; meeting Betty Abraham (Wagowski) who introduced her to a cousin,...
Dates: 1984

Lowenstein Family Holocaust Exhibit Booklet, 2009

 Item
Identifier: B333.07.0001.0007.00001
Abstract

Bound booklet written by Henry Lowenstein to accompany an exhibit featuring the Loewenstein documents at the Denver Public Library. The booklet explains the documents in the Lowenstein Family Holocaust Papers and tells his family's story during World War II especially relating to the Holocaust.

Dates: 2009

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