Margaret Lowe collection
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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.
People
- Lowenstein, Kurt.
- Pappenheimer, Gretl.
Subjects
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--England.
Genre
- Autograph books.
- Book.
- Document
- Identification card.