Lothar Ludwig Blumenthal

Lothar Ludwig Blumenthal, born 27 December 1920 in Fulda (D), was a son of Jakob Blumenthal and Klara Karolina Hecht. He was unmarried and weaver by profession. At the age of 17 he arrived from the city of Telsai in Lithuania in Enschede where he found shelter at Alststraat 21 and per 18 January 1938, when he joined the society for “hachshara” Haimers Eschs, which was founded on a religious basis,…

The “hachshara” was a training for living the life in Palestine and especially in a kibbutz, an agricultual colony which was socialistic orientated. The youngsters who received the training, were called Palestine pioneers or “chalutzim”. The traning consisted of practical skills for a life in agriculture and going with that, learning the Hebrew language, which would be the main language in the cou…

De overlevende zoon respectievelijk broer van Jakob, Leo en Lothar Blumenthal werd in 1943 gefotografeerd door de fotografe Annemie Wolff. Meer over Jakob en Lothar Blumenthal, en Leo en diens gezin, is te lezen in onderstaand boek.
Tamara Becker en An Huitzing, Op de foto in oorlogstijd: Studio Wolff, 1943 (Eindhoven 2017) 195, 199-200.