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    Almost Lost: Detroit Kids Discover Holocaust Secrets and Family Survivors
    Almost Lost: Detroit Kids Discover Holocaust Secrets and Family Survivors
    Almost Lost: Detroit Kids Discover Holocaust Secrets and Family Survivors
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    Almost Lost: Detroit Kids Discover Holocaust Secrets and Family Survivors

    By Pauline Loewenhardt

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    My father, Herman Josef Loewenhardt, came from a large German-Jewish family of Oberhemer, Germany. He met Elizabeth Henrietta Ring after his arrival in 1921, and they married and settled in a rented flat in Detroit. Herman converted to Catholicism, the religion of his wife. He kept his Jewish background a secret and this was one of the family se

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPauline Loewenhardt
    Release dateJun 18, 2020
    ISBN9781947989498
    Almost Lost: Detroit Kids Discover Holocaust Secrets and Family Survivors

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