Margaret Lowe collection

Identifier
irn14061
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2000.465.1
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Margaret Lowe

Margaret Lowe donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.

Scope and Content

Consists of instructions, dated 8 Aor. 1939, issued for Gretl Pappenheimer [donor] to the "Movement for the Care of Children from Germany" in London by the "Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland"; two copies of a "Fuehrungszeugnis," or certificate of good conduct, issued on 4 February 1939, for Kurt Lowenstein [donor's husband] by the Chief of Police of Düsseldorf, Germany; letter of reference, dated 17 February 1942, together with an envelope, issued for Kurt Lowenstein by C. Mayou & Sons in Birmingham, England; booklet, "Soldier's Service/and/Pay Book" issued to Kurt Lowe [sic], inscribed dates of 1943-1945, and including a discharge paper adhered at the back, dated 16 Dec.1947, Brighton, England; and an autograph book, entitled "Poesie," belonging to and carried by Gretl Pappenheimer from Germany to the United Kingdom in 1939 on a Kindertransport.

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