Wolfgang and Werner Loewy: Correspondence

Identifier
WL1160
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 70275
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Jan 1950
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Wolfgang Loewy, the depositor's father, left Berlin with his first wife and ended up in an internment camp in Bombay. His brother, Werner, wife and parents went to Shanghai, where they stayed until after the war, after which they went to live in Los Angeles. Wolfgang came to Great Britain after the war.

In a letter to the Indian authorities in June 1945, Wolfgang Loewy responds to the suggestion that he should be 'repatriated' to Germany, by saying that he was deprived of his German citizenship on the expiry of his passport in September 1939; that he was therefore stateless; and that he left Germany for political reasons and religious persecution, "I am a Jew by religion and by origin half-Jewish and half- Christian

Acquisition

Donated October 1994

Donor: Naomi Williams

Scope and Content

This collection of correspondence documents the fate of 2 German Jewish émigré brothers and their families who managed to escape from Berlin in 1939 to Shanghai and Cawnpore, India respectively.

System of Arrangement

The correspondence is arranged chronologically into 3 bundles.

Conditions Governing Access

Open

People

  • Loewy family
  • Loewy, Walter

Subjects

Places

  • Kanpur
  • Shanghai
  • India
  • China
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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