Rosa and Ludwig Löwenthal Collection

Ludwig Löwenthal was born March 20, 1898, in Bad Kissingen, Germany to the merchant William Löwenthal (died December 4, 1920, in Bad Kissingen) and his wife Amanda (née Bamberger), born 1868 and died on May 19, 1928, in Frankfurt am Main. He was a banker and had a brother Karl Löwenthal and a sister, Irma Lustig. Ludwig graduated from the royal secondary school in Stuttgart (K. Realgymnasium) in 1914 and went on to fight in the First World War. In 1917 Ludwig Löwenthal was awarded the Military Cross of Merit 2nd class with swords by the Bavarian King and he became a member of the Kyffhäuser League, a war veterans’ organization, in 1923.

Ludwig married Rosa Kohn on March 16, 1927, who was born August 13,1901, in Gerolzhofen, Germany, the daughter of the merchant Hermann Kohn and his wife Amalia Kohn, née Schwab. They had a son Willi, born January 6, 1928, in Bad Kissingen. The family emigrated to the Netherlands in the late 1930s and remained there until they were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Ludwig in 1943 and Rosa and Willi on October 23, 1944. Their transport numbers were Ludwig: XXIV/1-199, Rosa: XXIV/1-200, and Willi: XXIV/1-201. Ludwig Löwenthal died on February 21, 1944, in Theresienstadt while Rosa was liberated in 1945. Their son Willi was sent to Bergen-Belsen, where he was killed.

Rosa Löwenthal emigrated to the United States and changed her name to Rose Kohn Lowell; she died in Sunrise, Florida on September 23, 2000.