Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Bio/Hist: Epstein, E.J. Dict. of the Holocaust, c1997: p. 158 (Kindertransport: successful transports of 9,354 German, Austrian, and Czech Jewish children to private homes and institutions in England from 1938-1939. The children were unescorted and their parents were left behind) Edelheit, A.J. History of the Holocaust, 1994: p. 269 (Kindertransporte (German): children's transports: convoys of trains or trucks made up entirely of Jewish children caught during Nazi roundups and transported to the death factories. The term was also used in some instances to denote convoys of children from Germany or other occupied countries that were able to leave Europe for temporary or permanent shelter)
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Oral History Interview with Henry Lowenstein, 2011 February 5-20
Item
Identifier: B333.07.0001.0007.00002
Abstract
An unedited video interview with Henry Lowenstein on three DVDs. A fourth DVD holds the MP4 copies of the interview.
Dates:
2011 February 5-20