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The fruits of revenge

John Löwenhardt
27 January 2023

A personal questWritten and published in 2013, republished on this website on the occasion of its tenth anniversary. It took many decades for the quest to mature. In 2010 an event triggered it. The quest…

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The way to the Löwenhardts

John Löwenhardt
13 October 2021

by guest author Sebastian Zimmer, Oranienburg, Germany In 2021, my wife and I began to take a closer look at our two family stories. The decisive factor was a death that moved us very much…

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The firstborn

John Löwenhardt
25 May 2021

Or: hidden by ivy It began with a picture: a family gathering around a table in the garden. One man, three women and a girl named Gerda. An unusual picture, the five persons are identified…

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Sternlager

John Löwenhardt
6 June 2020

Hermann Kleeblatt died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, in its section named Sternlager, ‘Star Camp’. He was seventy years of age and the last of his family to fall prey to the Nazis. All were dead:…

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Bald heads

John Löwenhardt
23 April 2020

A mysterious picture from the family archives. Of only one of the ten individuals the identity is known. At the back in German handwriting the words ‘Neuenahr, Summer 1924’. Second from the left is my…

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House arrest

John Löwenhardt
9 April 2020

Vijfenzeventig jaren na de bevrijding van mijn geboorteplaats Almelo schrijf ik over de onderduik van mijn ouders en zoveel andere Joodse Almeloërs. Door de bevrijding van de stad door Canadese troepen kwam daaraan na ruim twee-en-een-half jaar een eind.

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Meet Kurt Ikenberg

John Löwenhardt
11 December 2019

Meet Kurt Ikenberg, distant relative of the same generation as I. He was born six years prior to me. I’ve known him for eight years although he was only three years of age when he…

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Moving pictures

John Löwenhardt
27 January 2019

‘GenTalk’ at the Famillement conference, 3 June 2018 in Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsTranslated from Dutch by the author What is special about Jewish genealogists and writers on family history? To their non-Jewish colleagues, having an extended…

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All that remains…

John Löwenhardt
19 December 2018

All that remains: four pictures of the De Jonge family that lived in Groningen (Netherlands) at Folkingedwarsstraat 5. Parents, two children and a son-in-law and grandchild Eva born in February 1942, all murdered in Auschwitz.…

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