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Izaak de Leeuw

Letter to George

23 December 2012 by John Löwenhardt

George Lowe in Rivonia, South Africa, c. 1984

In March 2011 the author was contacted by George, a then 87 year old relative who knew the author’s grandparents Adolf and Julia Löwenhardt well before in 1939 he was put on one of the ‘Kindertransports’ to London. In the intervening 72 years George (born as Hans-Georg) had not been in touch with any of his Löwenhardt relatives hailing from Dortmund. For George I wrote this story about what happened to Adolf and Julia after they fled their home town in the Summer of 1936…

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Filed Under: Amsterdam, Denekamp, Enschede, Goor, Theresienstadt, Westerbork Tagged With: Abraham de Leeuw, Adolf Löwenhardt, Hannchen ten Brink-Kleeblatt, Hans-Georg Löwenhardt-Lowe, Hermann Kleeblatt, Izaak de Leeuw, Julia Löwenhardt-ten Brink, Julius ten Brink, Kurt Herbert Ikenberg, Lina Kleeblatt-Weinberg, Margarete Löwenhardt-Hermanns, Maurits de Leeuw, Siegmund Löwenhardt, Ursula Löwenhardt, Walter Kleeblatt, Zelma de Leeuw-ten Brink

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