Löwenherz, Josef (1884 - 1960)

Born 1884 in Piwowszczyzna (Galicia). Died 1960 in New York. Head of the Jewish Community in Vienna between 1938 and 1945. Löwenherz was a Zionist and lawyer and later "Elder of the Jews" in Vienna. In May 1945 he was arrested by the Red Army. Löwenherz died in New York in 1960.