Peter was the child of Rabbi Erich Isaac Löwenthal and Ilse Minna "Miriam" Marienthal, and the brother of my late mother, Chaninah. He was born in Tel Aviv, Palestine, where his Jewish parents had a small business called Orientalia manufacturing mother-of-pearl rosaries. He and his parents moved to Berlin, Germany when he was a young child, which was where my mother was born in 1931. His parent…