Alex Loewenthal papers

Includes a fourteen-page document that deals with reparation claims by two of Alex Loewenthal's heirs, a series of letters written by Alex in Germany to his family in the United States during the war, a biographical sketch, a letter pertaining to assistance from the German Jewish Aid Committee, and another letter describing efforts to obtain a visa and steamship ticket to Cuba for Alex. On September 8, 1942 Alex Loewenthal was deported to Terezin and then to Treblinka where he later perished on September 29, 1942.