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Siegmund Löwenhardt

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
  1. 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[↩]

Filed Under: Paderborn Tagged With: Erich Löwenhardt, Hans-Georg Löwenhardt-Lowe, Harri Löwenhardt-Loyd, Hermann Löwenhardt, Joseph Löwenhardt, Julius Löwenhardt, Levi Löwenhardt, Louis Kleeblatt, Moses Löwenhardt, Prinz Moses, Salomon Löwenhardt, Siegmund Löwenhardt

The Jewish orphanage for Westfalia & Rhineland

24 December 2012 by John Löwenhardt 1 Comment

Hermann 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

Filed Under: Paderborn Tagged With: Hermann Löwenhardt, Julius Löwenhardt, Ludwig Ikenberg, Siegmund Löwenhardt

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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