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Pauline Löwenhardt-Lennhoff

Blessing hands in Plettenberg

28 October 2015 by John Löwenhardt Leave a Comment

PLETTENBERG was still on my to-do list. One of the few family related towns I had never visited. It is the birthplace of my great-grandmother Pauline Lennhoff. From Plettenberg in Nordrhine-Westfalia she moved some thirty kilometres north and settled in Oberhemer with Levi Löwenhardt. Between 1873 and 1892 they had twelve children, nine boys and three girls. In May 1933 Pauline died and was buried in the Jewish cemetery at Dortmund-Wambel, 85 years old. When five years ago I visited her grave, it was obvious: nazi thugs had fired bullets at her tombstone. But she was spared the horrors of the Holocaust. [Read more…] about Blessing hands in Plettenberg

Filed Under: Plettenberg Tagged With: Isak Lennhoff, Pauline Löwenhardt-Lennhoff, Pauline Löwenhardt-Lennhoff

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