The life and thought of Louis Lowy
Subtitle: social work through the Holocaust
By: Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella ; foreword by Joachim Wieler
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Religion, theology, and the Holocaust
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780815609650
Subjects: Jewish refugees; Social workers; Czech Jews; Jews; Biography; Holocaust survivors
Description: Louis Lowy (1920-1991), an international social worker and gerontologist, rarely spoke publicly about the Holocaust. During the last months of his life, however, he recorded an oral narrative that explores his activities during the Holocaust as the formative experiences of his career. Drawing on Lowy's oral narrative and accounts from three other Holocaust survivors who witnessed his work in the Terezin ghetto and the Deggendorf Displaced Persons Center, Gardella offers a rich portrait of Lowy's personal and professional legacy. In chronicling his life, Gardella also uncovers a larger story about Jewish history and the meaning of the Holocaust in the development of the social work profession.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A European childhood; title: The Terezin ghetto; title: Escape from Auschwitz; title: The social statesman; title: Louis and Ditta; title: Deggendorf Displaced Persons Center; title: The making of a social worker; title: A life's work; title: Social work with refugees and displaced populations.