Ernest Lowe collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Cary Lowe
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Cary Lowe donated the Ernest Lowe collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2011.
Scope and Content
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.
People
- Lowe, Ernest.
- Levy, Jake.
- Moeller, Trude.
- Loewy, Otto.
- Lorenc, Pepa.
- Loewy, Samuel, 1851-1932.
- Loewy, Irma.
- Treichlinger, Ottilie.
- Ehrlich, Richard.
- Ehrlich, Jacob.
- Treichlinger, Erna.
- Lowe, Siegfried.
- Loewy, Guste.
- Loewy, Ludwig.
- Lorenc, Ludwig.
- Treichlinger, Max.
- Lowe, Fred.
- Treichlinger, Antonia.
- Loewy, Julius.
- Binder, Pearle Frank.
- Levy, David.
- Perlmutter, Fanci.
- Treichlinger, Irma.
- Frank, Sophie.
- Treichlinger, Rudolf.
- Thiebenova, Alice.
- Binder, Louis.
- Binder, Gilda.
- Loewy, Heinrich, 1880-1919.
- Lowe, Mimi.
- Binder, Ivan.
- Loewy, Elsa.
- Loewy, Adolf.
- Ehrlich, Marka.
- Loewy, Magda.
- Loewy, Julie, 1854-1925.
- Loewy, Rosa.
- Lowe, Rosa.
- Levy, Bertha.
- Frank, Abe.
- Ehrlich, Joseph.
- Loewy, Irena.
- Lorenc, Olga.
- Lorenc, Otto.
- Ehrlich, Mitzi.
Subjects
- Vienna (Austria)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Families.
- Volenice (Czechoslovakia)
- Klatovy (Czech Republic)
- Austria.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document