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Oral history interview with William J. Lowenberg

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.030.0139

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    Oral history interview with William J. Lowenberg

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    Interview Summary
    William J. Lowenberg, born on August 14, 1926 in Ochtrup, Germany, describes his family; moving to Borculo, Netherlands in 1936 because of the antisemitism his family was experiencing; attending school and working as a delivery boy for his father’s new store; his family’s arrest in 1940 and their deportation to Westerbork, where he performed forced labor in a metal shop; his family’s transport in 1943 to Birkenau, where his parents and sister died; his transfer to Warsaw, Poland, where he worked with a unit responsible for demolishing buildings in the former ghetto after saving whatever could be re-used by the German Army; remaining in Warsaw until late 1944, when he was taken to Dachau; going through the sub-camps of Dachau until he was sent on a death march, where Allied forces liberated him in April 1945; and returning to the Netherlands after his liberation.
    Interviewee
    William J. Lowenberg
    Interviewer
    Ringelheim, Dr. Joan
    Date
    interview:  1993 January 28
    Geography
    creation: Washington (D.C.)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    5 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Joan Ringelheim, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with William J. Lowenberg on January 28, 1993 in Washington, DC.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:00:58
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