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Ernest Lowe collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.333.1

Overview

Description: 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.
Date: inclusive: 1917-1990
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Cary Lowe

Physical Details

Language: German English
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Extent: 4 folders

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Families.
Geographic Name: Volenice (Czechoslovakia) Czechoslovakia. Vienna (Austria) Austria. Klatovy (Czech Republic)
Personal Name: Lowe, Ernest. Loewy, Irma. Loewy, Ludwig. Loewy, Julius. Loewy, Heinrich, 1880-1919. Loewy, Adolf. Loewy, Rosa. Loewy, Samuel, 1851-1932. Loewy, Julie, 1854-1925. Thiebenova, Alice. Loewy, Irena. Loewy, Magda. Loewy, Guste. Treichlinger, Irma. Lorenc, Pepa. Treichlinger, Max. Lorenc, Ludwig. Treichlinger, Ottilie. Lorenc, Otto. Lorenc, Olga. Treichlinger, Rudolf. Loewy, Otto. Loewy, Elsa. Treichlinger, Erna. Treichlinger, Antonia. Lowe, Rosa. Lowe, Siegfried. Lowe, Fred. Lowe, Mimi. Frank, Sophie. Frank, Abe. Levy, David. Levy, Bertha. Levy, Jake. Binder, Pearle Frank. Binder, Gilda. Binder, Louis. Binder, Ivan. Ehrlich, Joseph. Ehrlich, Marka. Ehrlich, Jacob. Ehrlich, Richard. Ehrlich, Mitzi. Perlmutter, Fanci. Moeller, Trude.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Cary Lowe donated the Ernest Lowe collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2011.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

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