Heinrich Loewenstein's Class Portrait at the Wilsnacker Strasse Jewish School in Berlin, between 1937-1939

Item

Identifier: B333.01.01.00009

Staff Only

Abstract

Class photograph of a group of school boys pose around a teacher in the courtyard of the Wilsnacker Strasse Jewish School in Berlin, Germany. Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein] kneels third from the left in the front row. The Jewish community in Berlin established the school in an abandoned apartment building on Wilsnacker Strasse after a 1937 decree that forbid Jewish children to attend German schools. The Wilsnacker Strasse school was the last Jewish school in Berlin.

Dates

between 1937-1939

Digital Repository

Heinrich Loewenstein's Class Portrait at the Wilsnacker Strasse Jewish School in Berlin

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Extent

1 Items (photograph)

Additional Description

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Documents, photographs, and digital images from the Loewenstein and Bätge families before World War II, primarily documents pertaining to Heinrich Loewenstein's escape from Berlin on the Kindertransport.