Löwenherz Josef

Löwenherz, Josef Israel

Identifier: 000255
Type of Entity: Person

Dates of Existence

1884

1960

History

Head of the Jewish community (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde) in Vienna from 1936 and during the Nazi occupation of Austria.

Places

Place of birth
United States

Sources

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / ed. I. Gutman. - New York : Macmillan, 1990. - p. 913

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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
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Founded in 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided assistance to Jews around the world, particularly in eastern Europe. During the Nazi era, this umbrella agency for aid organizations in the United States was involved in emigration planning and relief work in Germany, until 1939 providing an increasing share of the budget for German Jewish organizations, such as the Reichsvertretung. The Joint efforts continued after the war began and extended beyond the Reich into countries occupied or controlled by Germany.
Appointments of notable people to serve as leaders of the Viennese Jewish community, 1938
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/19
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- pages 3 Official documentation Original
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Appointments of notable people to serve as leaders of the Viennese Jewish community, 1938 - Copy of a document issued by the "Besonderes Stadtamt Wien" regarding the appointments of Dr. Josef Loewenherz as Chairman of the Viennese Jewish community and an eight member advisory committee, 28 May 1938; - Granting of exclusive authority to the Community Chairman; - The appointments, guidelines and granting of authority in accordance with the decision of the Gestapo in Vienna.
Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documents regarding the situation of the Jews of Vienna after the Anschluss
1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3689687
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- 1938-1963
- Original Typewritten copy 12 pages/frames
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Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documents regarding the situation of the Jews of Vienna after the Anschluss In the file: - Copy of a newspaper clipping regarding the activity of Dr. Josef Loewenherz, the head of the Judenrat in Vienna, 20 April 1946; - Copy of testimony given by Wilhelm Hoettl regarding the Nazi party in Austria in the 1930s; - Clipping from the "Neue Zuericher Zeitung", regarding the annexation of Austria, 13 March 1963; - Letter from Dr. Josef Schauer to Saly Braunschweig, regarding the situation of the Austrian Jews following the annexation of Austria by Germany, dated 20 M...
Certificates issued by the Viennese Council of Elders regarding air-raid damage caused to Jews, signed by Dr. Josef Loewenherz
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/47.a
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- pages 27 Official documentation Survey report Typewritten copy
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Certificates issued by the Viennese Council of Elders regarding air-raid damage caused to Jews, signed by Dr. Josef Loewenherz
Zionism
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Commissions for the allotment of foreign currency (Devisenabgabe -expenditures of currency) - Disagreement between the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland) and the Jewish community in Vienna
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/72
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- pages 2 Official documentation Letter Typewritten copy xerox
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Commissions for the allotment of foreign currency (Devisenabgabe -expenditures of currency) - Disagreement between the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland) and the Jewish community in Vienna Notes made by Dr. Epstein, head of the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany, regarding the allotment of [foreign] currency to fund emigration expenses; disagreement between the "Association" and the Jewish community of Vienna concerning commission rates arousing suspicions regarding irregularities and integrity in the behavior of Viennese community se...
Correspondence and personal documentation of Dr. Josef Loewenherz, 1934-1943
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/51
- English, Hebrew
- pages 28 Letter Personal documents Official documentation Typewritten original Original
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Correspondence and personal documentation of Dr. Josef Loewenherz, 1934-1943 - Correspondence regarding allocation of a plot of land in the Ahuza neighborhood (Haifa-1934?) in honor of Dr. Loewenherz's 50th birthday; - Dr. Loewenherz's trip to Paris on behalf of the community regarding receiving financial assistance for emigration with the approval of the Gestapo Zentralstelle ((Central Office for Jewish Emigration), 07 March 1939; request to take personal luggage for the trip approved by the Devisenstelle (Foreign Currency Office) in Vienna, with the exception of a gold watch, which was re...
Correspondence with various organizations and bodies, 1940-1945
1. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 10573964
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- 1938-1945
- Handwritten, original Photo Typewritten copy Typewritten original xerox
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Correspondence with various organizations and bodies, 1940-1945 - Correspondence with Zionist movements, rescue organizations, embassies, international Jewish organizations, and more; -Letters, reports, protocols and messages mainly regarding the rescue of the persecuted Jews in German occupied Europe; some letters are written in encrypted language and contain hidden messages; - Correspondence including reports regarding the Jewish Order Police in the Warsaw Ghetto signed by S. Silberstein, Henryk Nadel and H. Auerswald (translated into Hebrew); - Copy of a protocol signed by B. Zabludowski...
Documentation regarding deportations of Jews from Vienna and Prague, October 1939
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/82
- English, Hebrew
- pages 5 Official documentation Reports Letter Typewritten copy xerox
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Documentation regarding deportations of Jews from Vienna and Prague, October 1939 - Orders from Adolf Eichmann to place the senior Jewish leaders, Berthold Storfer, Boschen, Richard Friedmann, Benjamin Murmelstein, Jakob Edelstein and Mauricy Gruen as the organizers of the first transport, which was thought of as the "Exemplary Transport"; it was said that the deportees were being sent to Maehrish-Osttrau; Correspondence between Dr. Loewenherz and the Zentralstelle fuer Juedische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) from Austria in Vienna regarding substituting Robert Prochni...
Documentation regarding Jewish emigration, travel documents and HICEM activities
1. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 10572705
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Documentation regarding Jewish emigration, travel documents and HICEM activities - Documents related to efforts to rescue Jewish inmates in various concentration and transit camps through the use of foreign, especially Latin American, travel documents; - Lists of the 1552 Jews who were entitled to obtain passports and citizenship certificates from the consulates of Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru and El Salvador. - Article regarding the activities of HICEM, an acronym of Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Jewish Colonization Association (ICA), and a migration organization (Emigdirect), th...
Documentation regarding the transfer of relief to Jews in Austria, including correspondence between Saly Mayer and the Red Cross organization regarding the financing of the Red Cross organization's activities in Vienna, a report by Israel Kasztner regardi
1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
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Documentation regarding the transfer of relief to Jews in Austria, including correspondence between Saly Mayer and the Red Cross organization regarding the financing of the Red Cross organization's activities in Vienna, a report by Israel Kasztner regarding [the transfer of] food goods to Jews in Austria, a report by the Jewish Agency regarding the fate of the Jews in Austria, and other matters, 1944-1945 - Correspondence between Saly Mayer and the Red Cross organization in Vienna, regarding the financing of the Red Cross organization's relief activities on behalf of the Jewish survivors in...
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SS-Obersturmbannführer. Founder of the "Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung" in Vienna in 1938. Later head of Referat IV B 4 in the RSHA responsible for deportations of Jews all over Europe to murder camps. Organiser of the Wannsee Conference. Sentenced to death in Eichmann Trial in December 1961, excecution in 1962.
Jewish jurists and lawyers
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General circular issued by the Jewish community of Vienna addressed to the Jews of Ostmark regarding the Verfuegungsbeschraenkung eber das Bewegliche Vermoegen der Juden (law limiting the use of personal belongings)
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
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General circular issued by the Jewish community of Vienna addressed to the Jews of Ostmark regarding the Verfuegungsbeschraenkung eber das Bewegliche Vermoegen der Juden (law limiting the use of personal belongings) - Kennkarte (Identity Card) Law, 01 October 1938; - Regulation Number 2 regarding the change of the first name and the last name, 05 January 1938; - Announcement from the Reichsststadthalter (City Governor) of Vienna regarding the abolition of recognition of the official status of the Jewish community in Vienna, and the disbanding of the community as of 31 October 1942; reason f...
Jewish property in Austria: lists of real estate in Austria owned by Jews according to the Property Declaration, 1938-1939; Jewish companies in Linz and a contract for the sale of the synagogue and the community building in Linz und Urfahr
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
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Jewish property in Austria: lists of real estate in Austria owned by Jews according to Property Declarations, 1938-1939; Jewish companies in Linz and a contract for the sale of the synagogue and the community building in Linz und Urfahr Lists of real estate in Austria owned by Jews; the source of the lists is the Property Declarations handed in to Landesamt (State Office) IX/5, 1938-1939; the material is bound and in alphabetical order; its source is the Property Declarations handed in to Landesamt IX/5, 1938-1939; the lists include the owner's name, birth date, the location and description...
Persecution of Jews
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Letter from Dr. Josef Loewenherz and a photograph of the administration of the Zionist Department in Leopoldstadt Vienna written to a friend named Gold, 02 April 1963
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/56
- English, Hebrew
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Letter from Dr. Josef Loewenherz and a photograph of the administration of the Zionist Department in Leopoldstadt Vienna written to a friend named Gold, 02 April 1963 The people in the photograph are not identified by name but as "Leitung der Zionistichen Sektion Wien (Abteillung, Gruppe = 'Sektion')" (the administration of the Zionist Department of the Vienna Section)
Letter of appointment of Dr. Josef Loewenherz as Chairman of the Altestenrat (Council of the Elders of the Jews) in Vienna
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/17
- English, Hebrew
- pages 2 Official documentation Typewritten copy Original
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Letter of appointment of Dr. Josef Loewenherz as Chairman of the Altestenrat (Council of the Elders of the Jews) in Vienna - Advisory members: Wilhelm Bienenfeld; Dr. Heinerich Dessauer and Dr. Benjamin Murmelstein; - Copy of an official letter from Gestapo Stapo (Statepolice) Engelbert Huber in Vienna to Dr. Josef Loewenherz, 01 January 1943; - Photocopy of the Letter of Appointment.
Notes to the memorandum, "Bemerkungen zum Gedenkprotokoll", of Dr. J. H. Koerner, SA regarding events among the leadership of the Jewish community of Vienna and Austrian Jewry, 1926-1937
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/33
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- pages 10 Official documentation Protocol Original
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Notes to the memorandum, "Bemerkungen zum Gedenkprotokoll", of Dr. J. H. Koerner, SA regarding events among the leadership of the Jewish community of Vienna and Austrian Jewry, 1926-1937 Notes on the memorandum of Dr. J.H. Koepness regarding events among the leadership of the Jewish community of Vienna and Austrian Jewry, 1926-1937; - The main body of the memorandum deals with the question of the involvement of the leaders in Chancellor Karl Schuschnigg's struggles against the takeover of Austria by Germany and Schuschnigg's appeal to the Jews of Austria to provide financial and political a...