Clothilde Löwenthal, née Ehrmann was born in Darmstadt on June 20, 1879 as the daughter of Emanuel Ehrmann and Emma, née Baer. In July 1903, she married the Bad Kissingen cattle dealer Maier Löwenthal in Darmstadt, where they initially lived. There, their daughter Irene was born on June 12, 1904.

In the next year, the family moved to Bad Kissingen, where the younger daughters Fanny (1906) and Bertha (1908) were born. Just like her husband, Clothilde committed herself to the Jewish Community and was a member of the Israelite Charity Club “Chewra Kadischa”.

On August 11, 1938, she left Bad Kissingen with her husband and their daughter Fanny in order to emigrate to America. Before setting out, they visited their oldest daughter Irene, m. Appel in Amsterdam for some days who had already emigrated to the Netherlands in 1933. Those were to be the last days together with their daughter Irene. After the occupation of the Netherlands by German troops, Irene Appel was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz/ Oświęcim Concentration Camp and murdered there. On August 30, 1938 Clothilde Löwenthal, her husband Maier and their daughter Fanny embarked for New York in Le Havre on board the steamer “Ile de France”. Their daughter Bertha had emigrated to the USA one year earlier. In 1940, they all lived together in an apartment in New York.

Clothilde’s three siblings, Bertha, m. Gerst, Babette, m. Barnass, and Berthold became victims of Nazi terror.

After the death of her husband in January 1951, Clothilde Löwenthat continued his correspondence with his acquaintance in Bad Kissingen and wrote to him: “He was a decent and proficient man as you rarely find one: I can’t really come to terms with the fact that he is gone” (letter from February 5, 1951)… He was extraordinarily capable, could advise you in every problem. I lost so much, we had been married for 47 years in a most happy wedlock. The only piece of luck for me is the fact that my dear Fanny is with me. She is an extraordinarily good daughter… Bertel (another daughter) comes to visit us with her husband and child every week, she lives rather far away from us” (letter from March 9, 1951).

Clothilde’s letters show that the financial situation was very strained in the following years and that she and her daughter Fanny, who was still living with her, had to live frugally and modestly. Clothilde also had great problems in coping with her husband’s death. Because of her age and her bad health, she couldn’t visit Bad Kissingen again, which she would have liked to do: “Now it must be so marvellous in beautiful Kissingen. Are there many spa guests already there? In spring it is so wonderful there, if I only remember the beautiful Rose Garden” (letter from February 8, 1959).

In July 1959, she could celebrate her 80^th birthday in a great family circle. The last sign of her life is a letter of October 1963 from her daughter Fanny: Clothilde, then at the age of 84, lived in a New York nursing home after a serious fall in her apartment. According to a relative, she lived to be over 95 and died in New York in the mid-1970s.