Trude Lowenthal Collection 1999

The collection contains a questionnaire filled out by Trude Lowenthal regarding her life in Austria before World War II, emigration from Austria to the United States, and life in the United States. Also included are school certificates, work certificates and letters of recommendation, identity cards, passports, birth certificates, marriage certificates, and photographs.Trude Lowenthal (née Rattner) was born in Vienna in 1913. She was the oldest of Hersh Ber and Ryfcia Rattner's four children. She left Austria for England in 1938 without her first husband, engineer Erwin Basch. Her sister Lily Buchwald had already been in England for several months when she arrived. She emigrated from England to the United States in 1949, where she later married Carl Lowenthal, who was originally from Germany. She worked as an accountant until her retirement in 1988.An inventory is available in the folderAustrian Heritage CollectionProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize