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The Jewish scholar and pedagogical writer, Rabbi Albert Lewkowitz was born in Georgenberg, Silesia in 1883. He was a chaplain in the German Army during WW I. Lewkowitz moved to Amsterdam in 1939, teaching at the Ashkenazi Rabbinical Seminary in Amsterdam; he was mentioned by Anne Frank in her diary. Lewkowitz was interned in Westerbork concentration camp and transferred to Bergen-Belsen, and he was among 222 Jews who were exchanged with German prisoners in 1944: he emigrated to Haifa. Rabbi Albert Lewkowitz died in Haifa in 1954.
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Albert Lewkowitz, Leo Baeck Institute, F 1961C.