The Life and Thought of Louis Lowy: Social Work Through the Holocaust

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201 Index Abrahamsohm, Klara, 103 Academy for Youth Programs (Germany ), 146 active endurance, 67 Adelphi University School of Social Work, 169 Adenauer, Konrad, 81 Adler, Alfred, 18 Adler bed factory, 5, 8 adult education: commonalities with social work, 162–63; in Europe, 148, 152; importance of, 7, 139–40, 161, 164–65; at Terezín, 40, 157; writings on, 144 aging, 145, 150, 156, 158–60. See also gerontology; senior citizens Allies, 19, 49, 64, 68–69. See also specific country altruism, 29 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 64, 86, 111, 116, 123, 168 anti-Semitism, 3, 6, 15, 70, 76, 166; Nuremberg Laws, 11, 23–24, 70 Applebaum, Mr., 141 archives and museums, xii, xiii, xv, xvii, 96–96, 171. See also Holocaust testimonies Aronson-Lind, Hilde, 103–4 art and artists, xxii, 27, 35, 36, 43 Association of Higher Education in Gerontology, 150 Association of Jewish Centers of Greater Boston, 144 Atkin, Carl, 78, 79, 83, 169; Eisenhower tour of DDPC, 88–90, 89; informal American style of, 82; Jewish self-government at DDPC, 90; letter requesting travel assistance for Louis, 84; Lowy marriage, 103–4; tributes to, 104, 121–23; Volksdeutsche at DDPC, 85–86 Auschwitz, 31, 35, 43–46, 47; liberation of, 55–61, 96–103 Auschwitz-Birkenau, 43–67; arrival at, 45–46, 47–48; death march, 53–56; escape from, 55–56; Family Camp, 43, 46, 96; Gleiwitz III labor camp, 49–56; liberation of, 55–61; tattooing of identification numbers, 48–49, 57, 146 Babbit (Lewis), 11 Baeck, Leo, 42, 73–74 bar mitvah, 8, 157 Bechmann, Emilie, 104 belonging, 6–7, 112, 158–59, 172 Beneš, Edvard, 19 Italic page numbers denote photographs or illustrations. 202 | Index Benji (war orphan), 131, 133 Berenbaum, Michael, 113 Berger, Heinz, 100 Berlinski, James, 104 Bernstein, Saul, 137 Beth Israel Hospital, 169, 172 black market, 24, 115–16, 117 Blau, Adolf, 81, 91 Bloksberg, Leonard M., xiv, 143 Bock, Teresa, 146 Boehm, Werner, xiv Bolz, Thekla Anna, 4–5. See also Löwy, Thekla Anna (Bolz) (mother) Bondy, Ruth, 69 Boston, MA, 131, 132, 133, 144 Boston Children’s Services, 138–39 Boston University, xiv, 18, 150; Gerontology Center, 145; School of Social Work, xv, 135–39, 144–46 Brecht, Bertolt, 6 Bridgeport Jewish Community Center (CT), 139–43, 144, 155–56 Bronx, NY, 131 Buchenholz, Kurt, 109–10 Buckhantz, W. V., 122, 126 Camp Kingswood (ME), 132–33, 136, 169–70 Camp Winzer, 76–78, 112 Captain of Köpenick, The (Zuckmayer), 58, 65 Carter, Miss, 133 casework, 132–133, 139, 164 Catholicism, 4, 6, 60, 131, 148 Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the United States Occupied Zone of Bavaria, xvii, 83, 86, 106–7, 155, 171; Historical Commission of, xvii, 171 Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the United States Occupied Zone of Germany, 83 Central Europe, xiii–xiv, 4, 14, 70, 80; maps, 8, 59, 94; social work profession in, 146–49. See also specific country Chamberlain, Neville, 19–20 Charles University (Prague), 17–21, 136 childhood and adolescence (Louis’s), 1–26, 165; anti-Semitism experiences, 6; bar mitzvah, 8, 157; education, 8–11, 13–21; employment, 13; escape from Germany, 11–13; heroes of, 10, 14–15; immigration to Czechoslovakia , 4–5, 6, 12–13, 154; reading interests , 9, 10–11; travels during, 8–13 Childhood and Society (Erikson), 139 children: expressing love to, 140; filial maturity, 12, 157, 159–60; as Holocaust survivors, 170; “mythical” independence and, 11; at Terezín, 31–33, 43–44; as war orphans, 126, 131–33, 135, 136. See also education (general); interdependence of generations Churchill, Winston, 24, 65 citizenship, 20, 70, 72, 102, 111–12 civic responsibility, 5, 114–15, 140, 155, 159 collective guilt, 148–49 “Coming Worries” (Lowy), 120 community centers, 6–7. See also specific community center community organization, 13, 29, 78, 124, 137, 160 community spirit (Gemeinshaftsgeist), 112–16, 117, 118, 155–56 concentration and extermination camps, 23, 30–31, 46, 52–53, 69, 97. See also selection; specific camp Index | 203 Connecticut Department of Old Age Assistance, 141 continuum of social work practice, 152, 161. See also social work Coudenhove-Kalergi, Richard, 14 creative altruism, 29 creativity, 20, 139, 163 crematoria, 31, 46, 52, 97 cultural self-awareness, 7 culture, 112–16; community spirit and, 112, 117, 118, 155–56; value of, 7, 40–42, 121. See also art and artists; education (general); literature; music Culture...