Heinz Loewy postcard
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Heinz Loewy
Biographical History
Heinz Loewy (later Henry Fred Long, 1907-1971) was born on 10 May 1907 in Berlin, Germany. He worked as a musician. Heinz was arrested in 1936 and imprisoned in several concentration camps including Columbia, Lichtenburg, Dachau, and Buchenwald. He was released from Buchenwald on 4 January 1939. He fled to Shanghai, China and survived the Holocaust there. In 1947 Heinz immigrated to the United States aboard the SS Marine Adder. He married fellow survivor Herta Loschinski in 1951.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Evelyn Goldstein Woods
The postcard was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Evelyn Goldstein Woods, the daughter of the wife of Heinz Loewy.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a postcard received by Heinz Loewy (later Henry Long), who fled to Shanghai, China after surviving imprisonment in several German concentration camps from 1936-1939. The postcard was written by Siegmund "Israel" Meyersohn in Berlin, Germany and dated 17 April 1941.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged as a single series.
People
- Loewy, Heinz.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--China--Shanghai.
- Shanghai (China)
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Refugees, Jewish--China--Shanghai.
Genre
- Document
- Postcards.