Löwenstein and Stern families collection

Identifier: irn623819
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn623819

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Gary Loy, the son of Fred and Lola Stern Loy and nephew of Julius Loewenstein.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of document cases, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fred Loy (born Alfred Löwenstein), Lola Stern Loy, Julius Loewenstein, and their families in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and China before and during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.

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Löwenstein and Stern families papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn583790
- English
- folders oversize folder oversize box 7 1 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Documents and photographs regarding the experiences of Alfred Löwenstein and Lola Stern, both of whom separately fled Germany for Shanghai aboard the MN Victoria in 1939, survived the Holocaust in Shanghai, and later married in the United States. Also contains biographical information on their families, including the deaths of Alfred’s parents at Theresienstadt. Biographical materials of Alfred and Lola include German passports, employment references, identification cards, and documents related to immigration to the United States. There are documents related to Alfred’s parents, Siegmund an...
Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn625668
- English
- 1939-1947
- overall: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Red document case used by Lola Stern (later Loy) and her family while emigrating from Germany in 1939 and Shanghai, China, in 1947. The case bears the name of a German insurance company and was likely acquired by Lola’s father, Hugo Stern, through his work as an insurance agent. After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, Lola was expelled from her school for being Jewish. To learn some work skills, she moved away from her parents, Hugo and Käthe Stern, and younger sister, Lisa, in Nordhausen. On November 8, 1938, during Kristallnacht, Lola was living in Frankfurt am Main as ...
Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn625670
- English
- a: Height: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) | Width: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Black document case acquired and used by Julius Loewenstein (born Löwenstein) after immigrating to the United States following the end of World War II (1939-1945). The case was used to hold his US naturalization certificate and important insurance papers. After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, many anti-Jewish laws severely restricted the daily lives of nineteen-year-old Julius, his parents, Siegmund and Sophie Löwenstein, and older brother, Alfred. Julius made his way to Switzerland as a refugee in August 1938. During the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, Siegmund ...

Löwenstein and Stern families collection

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Löwenstein and Stern families papers

Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer