Lester, Conrad H.
Owner of a porcelain and ceramics factory; founder of the Intellectual League of Austria (Liga für das geistige Österreich)/Ligue de l`Autriche vivante; his escape to the USA took him via Algiers and Brazil.
Liepman-Lilienstein, Dr. Ruth
Dr. Ruth Liepman-Lilienstein: 22.04.1909-29.05.2001. Lawyer, PhD in 1934. 1950 founded a literary agency in Hamburg, from 1961 Liepman AG Zurich. 1992 Gold Medal of the city of Zurich for her contributions to the international book market.
Lloyd Wright, Frank
American architect, 1867–1959, whose designs included the Guggenheim Museum which opened on New York’s Fifth Avenue in 1959.
Loewy, Ernst
1920-2002, literary scholar and publicist. He emigrated to Palestine with the Youth Aliyah in 1936 and emigrated back to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1956.
Lombardo Toledano, Vicente
1894-1968, Mexican lawyer and union leader, founder of the Confederación de Trabajadores de México (CTM), the Partido Popular workers' party and the Universidad Obréra de México workers' university where emigrants were also allowed to teach.
Löwenstein, Hubertus Prince zu
Prince Hubertus Friedrich zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, 1906-1984, German journalist, politician and author. Emigrated to Austria in 1933, to England in 1935, and to the USA in 1936. Founder of the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom.
Lucius D. Clay
1897 – 1978, was a General in the US Army and, following the war, was deputy military governor until 1947 and then military governor until 1949 of the American occupied zone.
Lukács, Georg
1885-1971, Hungarian philosopher, literary scholar and critic, author of Die Zerstörung der Vernunft (1954; The Destruction of Reason)
Lutetia Circle
A committee named after the Parisian Hotel Lutetia which aimed to build a German People’s Front; it met for the first time in September 1935 on the initiative of Willi Münzenberg
Magen David Adom
also MDA (literally: Red Shield of David), sister organisation oft he Intenational Red cross founded in 1930.
