Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Bio/Hist: Encyc. Judaica: v. 14, p. 183 (Righteous of the Nations (Heb. hĚŁasidei ummot ha-olam), term applied to those non-Jews who saved Jews from their Nazi persecutors by endangering their own lives. The State of Israel officially recognized the term Righteous of the Nations in Article 9 of the Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Law of 1953.)
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
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