Ernest LOEWENSTEIN

1926 - 2012  (86 years)

• Name	Ernest LOEWENSTEIN
  Birth	28 May 1926	Koblenz, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Jul 2012	Lake Worth, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
  Person ID	I6463	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	Solly LOEWENSTEIN,   b. Esch, Germany
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Hede Hedwig ANSCHEL
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2461	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Davina COHEN
  Children	1. Living   2. Living   3. Living   4. JoAnn LOEWENSTEIN  [natural]
  Family ID	F2462	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Lived in Norwich, NY. A veteran of World War 2. Owned and operated a dairy far and was a cattle dealer. Relocated to Florida in 2004. Submitted by Ernest's son, Mark in January 2017 "my father described in detail his memories of Kristalnacht. Of his father's 6 week detainment in Dachau. How his parents sent him and his brother Gunter to what they believed to be safety in Belgium after his release. Unfortunately, shortly after arriving in Belgium the Nazis invaded and my father and uncle became separated from their parents. From his telling my grandmother (Hedwig) was relentless in keeping tabs on their whereabouts. Even as she and my grandfather (Sol) traveled to England and then the United States. All the while they both lobbied parliamentarians and then congressmen and senators to secure visas to reunite in the USA. At the time my father was 13 and my uncle was 7. I can't even imagine how quickly my father had to grow up and face the hellish reality that was the Holocaust and war. All while caring for his younger brother. They did eventually make it out and reunited in New York. A couple of years later my father was drafted into the army and went back to fight. After hostilities ended during the occupation he tried to find if there was any family left but unfortunately everyone that he searched for had perished. The family (My father, uncle, grand father and grandmother) eventually all settled in Norwich, NY where my father was a cattle dealer for 45yrs. I never knew my grandfather as he died in the late 50's. He died of a heart attack in the hospital in Sidney, NY after attending a cattle auction with my father. My uncle Guy left the farm in 1969 and moved to Fair Lawn, NJ. He made his living as a medical equipment salesman. My grandmother lived with us on the farm until old age finally moving into a nursing home in New Jersey near Guy. She died in 1981 just 2 weeks prior to my Bar Mitzvah. My father (Ernest) retired from the cattle business in 1988 but stayed on at the farm for awhile and started a golf driving range and continued to bale and sell hay for as long as he could. He never hit a golf ball or played the game in his life and he thought that a person had to be crazy to chase that little ball all over the place......But he needed something to keep him busy. He could not stand sitting idle. He and my mother eventually sold the farm and moved to Lake Worth, Florida. My father never complained however I know in my heart he would have rather died on a tractor in a field on the farm. My father passed away in 2012. He suffered from Parkinson's disease. He was a very practical and straight forward man. He knew the end was near. He told my brothers and I "this getting old shit is for the birds" and to not frett because none of us get out of this life alive. He was in every sense of the word, to me at least, a hero. He endured and overcame anything that this world threw at him. He maintained his pride and dignity. He was hard working. He was as honest as the day is long and his word was his bond no matter what."