Life Insurance Document for Margot Loewenstein

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.44

Object Name

Record, Insurance

Date

3-2-1940

Files

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Description

Front: A tan card stapled onto a larger green card. Tan card includes typewritten information, as well as several stamps, including a large red Star of David with the word "Jude."Back: A printed chart with writing.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A very disturbing set of three typed documents (2012.1.44, 2012.1.45, 2012.1.46) from Berlin. Each is ominously stamped "Jude" in a large red Star of David, concerning the life insurance policy of one Margot Lowenstein of Hamburg, who fled Nazi Germany in August 1939 for England. Under German law, Jews who left the country or were forcibly deported were forced to forfeit any benefits or monies due on existing life insurance policies. The document, loosely translated in part, reads: "According to our records, the claimant is a Jew who has left the country and has forfeited her German nationality. At present the above policy is due... We waive the certificate of insurance in the interest of the Reich..." This is a morbid reminder of the lengths the Nazi regime went to bilk every last penny out of their political and cultural enemies.

[Related items: 2012.1.45, 2012.1.46]

Dimensions

6 x 4"

Keywords

Star of David, Stamp, Hamburg, England, Margot Loewenstein

Subcollection

Concentration, Ghettos

Recommended Citation

"Life Insurance Document for Margot Loewenstein" (1940). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.44.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/708