Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust

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,...

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Video details the life and rescue mission of Nicholas Winton in 1938. Video includes additional information about some of the Jewish children he saved from Nazi violence. Includes a teachers' guide with extra archival materials and discussion questions.

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Statue at the Rosenstrasse Memorial in Berlin, Germany to honor Germans, mostly women, who protested the deportation of their Jewish spouses and children during the Rosenstrasse Protest. Marie Loewenstein and Karin Steinberg joined the thousands of Germans for six days, even facing S.S. machine guns. Max Loewenstein was among those saved from transportation to East European concentration camps.

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Henry Lowenstein standing beside a statue at the Rosenstrasse Memorial in Berlin, Germany to honor the Germans, mostly women, who protested the deportation of their Jewish spouses and children during the Rosenstrasse Protest. Marie Loewenstein and Karin Steinberg joined the thousands of Germans for six days, even facing S.S. machine guns. Max Loewenstein was among those saved from transportation to East European concentration camps.