Died
20 March 1950
Sources
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Czech Jewish Holocaust Records
London Gazette
Barrow News
Cumbria BMD
Ancestry
Place
Walks
Themes
Stephen Charles Haurowitz
A very simple grave stone, but poignant. Stephen Haurowitz was a Holocaust survivor, (probably by leaving Czechoslovakia before the war – his brother Ernst left in 1939) the only one I have found in my researches of Furness graveyards so far.
REMEMBRANCE
STEPHEN CHARLES
HAUROWITZ
ENTERED INTO REST
20TH MARCH 1950
AGED 50 YEARS
The London Gazette 14 September 1948 has:
Haurowitz, Stefan Karl (known as Stephen Charles Haurowitz), Czechoslovakia; Managing Director, The Lawns, 36 Dalton Gate, Ulverston, Lancashire 21 August 1948.
He is on the list of the Survivors and Victims Database of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum online, though it provides little detail.
The Czech Jewish Holocaust Records gives his date of birth as 11 May 1899, and birthplace Prague.
As a young man, Stefan Karl Haurowitz sailed to the United States, arriving New York from Copenhagen on I June 1921 on the Hellig Olav. He was a Manufacturer. His nationality is given as Czechoslovakian; race Bohemian; birthplace and residence Prague; relative in Czechoslovakia Rudolf Haurowitz, Manufacturer, of Marienstrasse 39, Prague. He was visiting his friend, Professor Charles Beck, of North Chicago Hospital, Illinois.
The National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1951 has:
HAUROWITZ Stephen Charles otherwise Stephen of The Lawn Dalton Gate Ulverston Lancashire died 20 March 1950 Probate London 17 March to Jack Franks solicitor.
Effects £3222 6s 8d
The Rudolf Haurowitz named above was Stephen Haurowitz’s father, and there is another interesting document on the Internet relating to a claim for compensation made by his brother Felix, and concluded in 1962 in the USA.
This says that Felix Haurowitz, 417 South Henderson Street, Bloomington, Indiana is claiming through the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States (Claim CZ-3,489), compensation of $381,466 against the Government of Czechoslovakia in respect of a weaving mill in Hradek nad Nisou; an estate with three houses in Roztoky near Prague; apartment houses in Prague (13 Wenceslas Square); bank deposits; and securities.
Felix Haurowitz inherited a third of these assets on Rudolf’s death on 27th January 1940. His brother, Stephen Karl Haurowitz, is mentioned in the document. The claim was that these assets had been appropriated by the German Reich during the war, and then nationalised without compensation by the Czech state afterwards. Parts of the claim were rules inadmissible, but other parts were successful. On 23 May 1962 a recommended decision was reached, awarding Felix Haurowitz $85,853.55.
Felix Haurowitz was a distinguished academic, with papers deposited at the University of Illinois. The biographical note reads:
Haurowitz was born in Prague on Mar. 1, 1896. In 1915 he was drafted into the Austrian army and sent to the Austrian front during World War I. It was here that he developed a keen interest in chemistry from reading textbooks sent by his parents. He was subsequently granted a year's leave by the government to obtain a medical degree which he received in 1922. He earned a doctorate of science degree in 1923 and in 1925 was appointed assistant professor at the German University in Prague. Over the next few years, working with several important biochemists, he researched hemoglobin and its derivatives. He began work on his popular "Progress in Biochemistry" series and from 1930 made immunochemistry his principal area of research. When the Nazi invasion forced him to leave Prague in 1939, he took the position of Head of Biological and Medical Chemistry in the Medical School at University of Istanbul, Turkey. He devoted himself to teaching, research and producing a Turkish textbook of biochemistry. In 1948 he was appointed professor of Chemistry, Indiana University, where he received in 1958 the title Distinguished Professor. During his career he gained wide-spread recognition for his work on antibodies and received numerous honors which included the Paul Erhlich gold medal (West Germany), election to the German Academy of Scientists (Leopoldina), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was also awarded an honorary MD by the University of Istanbul and an honorary doctorate of science degree by Indiana University. In 1971 he was honored at the First International Congress of Immunology for "distinguished services to immunology." Of his ten books he considered Chemistry and Biology of Proteins, whose second edition was called Chemistry and Function of Proteins, to be the most important. Both were reprinted and translated into many languages including Japanese and Russian. He remained active in science up to his death in 1987. Read more.
The account of his life and funeral in the Barrow News 1 April 1950 reads as follows:
MR. S. C. HAUROWITZ, ULVERSTON
The funeral took place at Ulverston Cemetery on Saturday of Mr. Stephen Charles Haurowitz (50), a retired company director, late of The Lawn, Dalton Gate, Ulverston. He came from London to Ulverston in October, 1947, and started a belt factory in North Lonsdale-road, but retired owing to ill-health at Christmas, 1948.
He was an active member of Ulverston Golf Club, the County Bowling Club, and had enrolled for service in civil defence. He leaves two brothers, who are residing in America, Felix being a professor of chemistry at Indiana University, and Ernest, a company director in Buenos Aires.
Prior to the interment a service was held in Holy Trinity Church, conducted by the Rev. J. W. Roberts.
The principal mourners were: Mr. Frankel (representing Messrs. Franks, Charlesby and Co. solicitors, London), Mr. Goldsmith, London (partner in business prior to his retirement), Mrs. Scott, Mr. Derauden, Mrs. Roper, (Dalton), Mrs. Dickinson, Mrs. Stephenson, Mr. E. Burns, Coun. F. Smith, Canon J. S. Rimmer, Messrs. J. Foster Lord, H. Wilson, J. Albright, J. Croasdell, J. Donnelly, Capt. Poole, H. Plevey, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper (Swarthmoor), Mrs. Bigland (Bigland Hall), Mr. J. Jones and Mr. Pavey (Golf Club), Messrs. Wm. Fell, C. W. Gabbatt, J. Hanks, Fred Guy, J. F. Dobson, Tyson, and many others.
Messrs. J. F. Tyson and Sons were the undertakers.
