The flow of mail did not stop during the Holocaust. Between 1938 and 1941 Dr. Emanuel Loew (died in Vienna, March 19, 1942) and his wife Regine Loew (murdered in Treblinka, September 21, 1942) wrote letters back and forth with their extended family and with their three sons, Erich, Friedrich, and Gustav, who escaped Nazi occupied Vienna for the United States.
Join Emanuel and Regine Loew’s grandson Robert Lowe and translators Ingrid Preston and Christoph Stauder for a fascinating conversation about this instructive collection of 168 letters, what they reveal about life in Vienna before and after Kristallnacht, about family connection across great distance, and about the process of translation. The letters also chronicle the family’s years of struggle with the United States immigration system – a struggle that they lost, and a struggle with direct relevance to events in the US today. Anne LeVant Prahl, OJMCHE’s curator of collections, will moderate the program.