Louis Kleeblatt

Ö or œ, d or dt?

11 January 2013 by John Löwenhardt 2 Comments

The Löwenhardt family name since 1840

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 / Footnotes

The twelfth Netherlands census was on 31 May 1947, less than three months before the author of these words was born. So he did not count… yet[↩]

The origins of Hannchen

31 December 2012 by John Löwenhardt

For ten years longer than she lived my great-grandmother Hannchen has lain at the ‘youngest’ Jewish cemetery at De Knik in Denekamp. She died on 18 October 1930. For forty years she lived at the spot now occupied by the Blokhuis butcher’s shop – bearing six children – with her husband Isaak ten Brink, cattle dealer, butcher and pub landlord. [Read more…] about The origins of Hannchen