gb-003348-wl3000 9 1-925
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biographical history: Dr Leo Löwenstein (1879-1956) was a Jewish-German physicist and chemist. The World War I veteran, who invented artillery sound ranging, had founded the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten (RjF; Reich Federation of Jewish Front Soldiers) in 1919. In 1943, Löwenstein was deported to the Theresienstadt (Terezin). Upon his liberation he emigrated to Sweden and later to Switzerland. See Walk, J., <a href"http://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/1957">Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et.al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 245.
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has beginning date: 1954-04-14
has end date: 1956-06-16
has or had holder: gb-003348
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 686
has record set type: Collection
identifier: WL3000/9/1/925
is or was included in: gb-003348-wl3000 9 1
record resource extent: 22 letters
scope and content: Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters the correspondence regards a request by German right wing magazine Nation und Europa to Löwenstein to author an article for one of its issues. Contained are transcripts of the according correspondence, reflecting Löwenstein’s conservative positions. Furthermore, Löwenstein and Alfred Wiener discuss some personal matters as well as the option of writing an eyewitness account for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project.
title: Correspondence with Löwenstein, Leo