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Löwenthal Sigmund

Surname
Löwenthal
First Name
Sigmund
Date of Birth
01-04-1866
Place of birth
Bad Kissingen
Other family members

Parents: Simon Löwenthal and Therese née Süßer
Siblings: Karoline m. Gutmann, William/Abraham, Max, Leopold
Spouse: Wilhelmine Emilie née Fisch
Children: Simone and William

Address
Profession
Student of Kissingen Realschule - executive director
Emigration/Deportation

before 1900 emigrated to Belgium
1940/41 emigrated to Brazil and a short time later to the USA

Date of death
01-04-1955
Place of death
Hartsdale/NY

biography


Sigmund Löwenthal came from a long-established and respected Bad Kissingen family. He was born in Bad Kissingen on January 4, 1866 as the son of the “Ökonom” (agriculturist) Simon Löwenthal and his wife Therese Süßer.

After attending Elementary School, he entered Kissingen Realschule in October 1877, which was the predecessor of contemporary Jack-Steinberger-Gymnasium. In August 1881 he graduated successfully.

His further life is only patchily known. Though Sigmund Löwenthal emigrated to Belgium already at the end of the 19thcentury, he was threatened by the racial madness of the National Socialists during the Nazi Era, which is the reason why he was deliberately included into the Memorial Book at hand. As a young man, Sigmund emigrated to the Belgian port of Antwerp between 1886 and 1900. Later he went to France and married Wilhelmine Emilie Fisch who was born in France in May 1904. Their two children Simone and William were born there in 1906 and 1908. Sigmund Löwenthal acquired the French citizenship and was dismissed by the German state according to an entry on his Kissingen registration card of 1944. Around 1940, Sigmund Löwenthal and his wife lived in Vichy in the unoccupied part of France, where the situation for emigrants nevertheless got more and more dangerous because of the collaboration of the Vichy Government with the National Socialists. 

In November 1940, Sigmund Löwenthal received temporary visa for Brazil from the Brazilian Consulate in Marseille for himself and his wife. At the end of 1940 or the beginning of 1941, the 74-year-old man seems to have emigrated to Brazil together with his wife, his daughter Simone and his three grandsons. As soon as in March 1941, they left Rio de Janeiro on board the “Uruguay” and emigrated to New York. In 1946, Sigmund Löwenthal received American citizenship. From now on he called himself Sigismond Lowe. Over the next few years, Sigismond traveled to Europe several times with his wife Wilhelmine.

Sigismond Lowe died on January 4, 1955 on his 89th birthday and was buried in Hartsdale (a borough of Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York State). His wife Wilhelmine had died in Manhattan in July 1951.

 

Wilhelmine-Löwenthal
Sigmund Löwenthal's wife Wilhelmine
                           
Simone-Baumann
Daughter Simone m. Baumann
William-Lowe
Sigmund Löwenthal's son William


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