The Loewenstein Family: A Story of Survival

Henry reunited with his cousin Ingrid (Lind) Wedell after the war. She had married a British officer, and the couple lived in Bath, England. Before Henry left for America, Ingrid sent a farewell telegram.

During his eight years in England, Henry worked at the Whipsnade Zoo and at a nearby farm and studied art. Henry was issued an immigration visa to the United States on April 30, 1947. A week later he purchased his ticket on the onetime troop transport, the SS Marine Falcon, from the J. D. Hewett Travel Agency in London.

The SS Marine Falcon sailed from Southampton, England on June 12, 1947 and arrived in New York, New York on June 21, a year after his family’s move to Pennsylvania and just in time for Henry's twenty-second birthday. Henry was reunited with his parents Max, Maria, and his sister Karin. The family's long nightmare of persecution and separation was finally over.