curt lowens Archives – Jewish Journal

Recalling Curt Lowens, ‘A Figure of Wonder’

Elyse Glickman January 24, 2018

Curt Lowens, Holocaust survivor, actor, 91

Jewish Journal May 17, 2017

Moving and Shaking: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Harvey Weinstein, Rabbi David Wolpe and more

Ryan Torok April 2, 2015

As the night’s master of ceremonies at the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance annual national tribute dinner, Jeffrey Katzenberg had two big jobs — to keep the presentations to heroes who’d risked their lives to save others moving along like clockwork and to convince the crowd that the night’s top honoree, Harvey Weinstein, is a good guy and a true humanitarian.

Survivor: Curt Lowens

Jane Ulman May 7, 2014

\”We are surrounded by Hitler Youth throwing stones. Get home as fast as you can.” Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt, director of the Goldschmidt Schule (School) in Berlin, told the students as she rushed into one of Curt Lowens’ (then Loewenstein’s) morning classes.

Music makes the long journey from Israel to L.A.

Jewish Journal January 2, 2014

It was late during World War II and Curt Lowens, a member of the Dutch resistance whose family had fled Berlin after Kristallnacht, saw an Allied plane in distress. He knew what he had to do.