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Margarete Löwenhardt-Hermanns

An ordinary boy

29 September 2016 by John Löwenhardt

MANFRED LOEWENHARDT, 1926 – 1965

Freddy Lowe, 1926-1965
Freddie Lowe, 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 than once. I never heard my father talk about Freddie – but then, neither did he talk about other relatives. Most of them had been murdered by the Nazi’s. That Freddie was special I learned only in 2011 when his brother Hans-Georg (1924-2016) established contact with me. Together they had managed to escape from Nazi-Germany in March 1939. The two boys were saved, their parents and sister Ursula (Ulla, 1930) were murdered in Auschwitz in October 1944.

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Filed Under: Dortmund, London, Toronto Tagged With: Hans-Georg Löwenhardt-Lowe, Ignaz Maybaum, Johanna Loewenhardt, Manfred Loewenhardt-Lowe, Margarete Löwenhardt-Hermanns, Siegmund Loewenhardt, Ursula Loewenhardt, Werner van der Zyl

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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