Georg Lövy

Georg Jakob Lövy was born on May 24, 1880 in Breslau as the son of the grain trader Dagobert Lövy and his wife Wilhelmina née Wassermann. He also had a sister Betty.
He became a businessman and traveled by ship to New York and back in 1913, when he was still single. He married Margarete Rosenthal and became director of Oderberger Chemical Works AG in Neu-Oderberg, Silesia, now Bogumin, Czech Republic.
The son Ernst Georg was born in 1918, followed later by another son.
The family had lived in their own house in Zehlendorf, Forststrasse 31, since 1922.
Both sons were able to emigrate, Georg and Margarete Lövy fled to Holland in March 1939, they lived in Rotterdam from 1939 to 1941 and then in Gouda.
They were arrested and remained in the Westerbork assembly camp from 1941 to 1942.
On September 14, 1943 they were deported together to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Margarete Lövy was murdered on December 12, 1943, Georg Lövy died on December 17, 1943.