Edith Löwenstein

Edith Löwenstein is a memorial in Berlin, Berlin. Edith Löwenstein is situated nearby to the railway station U-Bahnhof Hansaplatz, as well as near the public building Hansabibliothek.

Type: Memorial
Also known as: “Edith Löwenstein geb. Schulz”
Inscription: “Lessingstr. 7 wohnte Edith Löwenstein geb. Schulz Jg. 1900 deportiert 23.7.1942 Theresienstadt 1944 Auschwitz ermordet”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hansabibliothek and Siegessäule.

Hansabibliothek

Library

Photo: Dreas, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hansabibliothek is a library.

The Victory Column is a monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory over Denmark in the Second Schleswig War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria and its German allies in the Austro-Prussian War and France in the Franco-Prussian War, giving the statue a new purpose. Siegessäule is situated 610 metres southeast of Edith Löwenstein.

Hansaplatz

Square

Photo: Fridolin freudenfett, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hansaplatz is a square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hansaviertel and Westfälisches Viertel.

Hansaviertel

Suburb

Photo: Fridolin freudenfett, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Hansaviertel is the smallest Ortsteil of Berlin and is between Großer Tiergarten and the Spree River, within the central Mitte borough of Berlin. The district was almost completely destroyed during World War II but was rebuilt from 1957 to 1961 as a social housing project by international master architects such as Alvar Aalto, Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, and Sep Ruf.