Stories and pictures on the histories of four families
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The pictures of ‘Aunt’ Clara and myself have been preserved in a photo album made by my parents and documenting the first two years of my life. [Read more…] about The Löwenhardt Sisters, II
Remembering Elizabeth Henrietta Loewenhardt-Ring, 1898-1953
by Pauline M. Loewenhardt
My parents – Elizabeth Henrietta, and Herman Joseph – had traditional values that I was disdainful of as a teenager. Their heavy German accents set me apart from my friends, as did the handmade clothes she lovingly sewed on her Singer sewing machine. [Read more…] about Mama’s Peach Jam
by Pauline and Lucy Loewenhardt, USA, and John Löwenhardt (introduction)
Hermann Loewenhardt was 28 years old when on 12 September 1921 he arrived in the USA. He was the youngest of the twelve Löwenhardt children from Oberhemer, Germany and the second and last to arrive in the US. [Read more…] about Ach Du Lieber…
The words written on 15 May 1943 are despair in a nutshell: ‘[We’ve] heard nothing from Uncle, [or] Julius’ – Vom Onkel, Julius hoeren nichts. [Read more…] about Of hope and despair – and reassurance
Very few Dutchmen carry the family name Löwenhardt. The 1947 census counted six: three people in the province of Gelderland, two in Overijssel and one in Amsterdam. 1 Sixty years later in 2007 the Meertens Institute counted eight Löwenhardt name carriers. I count ten, both in 2007 and in 2013. Three of these are living abroad temporarily. [Read more…] about Ö or œ, d or dt?
Noten / FootnotesHermann Loewenhardt told his American-born children that he had been in an orphanage in Germany before he emigrated to the United States. It was difficult to believe. Why should he have been in an orphanage? [Read more…] about The Jewish orphanage for Westfalia & Rhineland