Although they were living together, few people were more surprised by Löwy's arrest than her partner, Georg Israel (1921–1944). The two had come across one another in 1939 when the school they both attended had been closed down following the Kristallnacht pogrom and they had both transferred to the city's last surviving Hebrew school. They had moved in together shortly after meeting, but for reasons which invite several possible interpretations Löwy had never told her lover about her involvement with the people who organised the arson attack.