Ernest Lowe collection

Identifier
irn43921
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.333.1
Dates
1 Jan 1917 - 31 Dec 1990
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

4

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Cary Lowe

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Cary Lowe donated the Ernest Lowe collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2011.

Scope and Content

The Ernest Lowe collection consists of documents and photographs related to the wartime experiences of Ernest Lowe (born Ernst Loewy/Löwy), who was born in Volenice, Czechoslovakia and raised in Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war school documentation and report cards, documents related to his 1939 immigration to the United States, and family photographs of Ernest Lowe, his wife Valerie, and the extended Loewy family. Also includes oral history transcripts of interview with Valerie Ernei Lowe, who spent the war in hiding in Slovakia, and with Marianne (Mimi) Lowe Cahn, Ernest's sister, who immigrated to the United States in November 1938.

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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.