27 January 2020
75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz
7 years since the opening of this website
Meet Kurt Ikenberg
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 died. Seventy five years after his death I have been able to give him … → →
Moving pictures
'GenTalk' at the Famillement conference, 3 June 2018 in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Translated from Dutch by the author What is special about Jewish genealogists and writers on family history? To their non-Jewish colleagues, having an extended … → →
All that remains…
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. After November 1942 no … → →
Five years in the Internet
A happy occasion: five years ago today, this trilingual website went on-line. During this period 24 stories have been published in English, 21 in Dutch and 8 in German. Thus the histories of the Löwenhardt, De Leeuw, Ten Brink and Weijl families have … → →
Isaac de Leeuw, for kosher meat
Surprising ads in Holland's oldest weekly, the NIW (New Jewish Weekly, founded in 1865 and still going strong today). They tell me that from 1904 or earlier my great-grandfather Isaac de Leeuw Az. ((Az., Abrahamszoon, son of Abraham; on his matseewa … → →
An ordinary boy
MANFRED LOEWENHARDT, 1926 - 1965 Who was Freddie? Why should I care who he was? He was one of the very many cousins of my father Heinz Löwenhardt (1913-1989). Since both lived in Dortmund, Germany, until the mid-1930s, they will have met more … → →
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