[85], He was knighted in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours (UK) for services to business and philanthropy.[86][87]. In the new movie, she is seen sitting at a table with him fussing over her. He envisioned a place where his entire family three sons, 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren could stay together in Israel. Frank Lowy had just . Today the focus is on the individual, on the narrow interests of the few, and politics reflects this. [24] In 2008 Lowy and related interests were mentioned in documents stolen from the LGT Bank of Liechtenstein by a former employee. By
Frank Lowy's biography is fascinating, like that of a sort of Jewish Forrest Gump. He said that during his 70 years in Australia, he had experienced a nation that was open to new ideas, but felt that sentiment had declined. He hasnt been able to enjoy his new apartment overlooking Central Park in New York, nor his much loved waterfront house in Sydneys Point Piper, but has managed a few weeks in Greece on his immaculate 82-metre yacht. Im 88 years old and Im still mourning him because its such a drama for me. In 2010, the Business Review Weekly measured Lowy's wealth at A$5.04 billion, making him Australia's richest person at that time. We dont want to sit on our laurels, and we dont want lazy capital. 'I just saw the despair on my fathers face, and it made a mark on my life', Mall Magnate, Holocaust Survivor, Frank Lowy Knighted in Britain, A German tank and troops in Budapest, 1944. For this we established a State of Israel. [18], Awarded the title of Australias leading philanthropist by peak body, Philanthropy Australia, with donations in 2002 of A$10 million,[19] the same year Lowy was reported to have answered a call by Australia's Prime Minister to donate his annual salary of approximately A$11 million to charity. Hitler didnt discriminate between Orthodox and secular Jews. A subsequent US Senate probe and an Australian Taxation Office audit in which Lowy and his sons, David and Steven, were investigated on their involvement with financial institutions in tax havens located in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Lowy's multi-deck yacht, Ilona, one of the largest and most luxurious in the world, named after his mother. Lowy: When I came here, it was freedom. And his son Peter currently serves as the conglomerate's co-CEO, which means that the younger Mr. Lowy is obviously enormously rich, just like his papa. [22] In 1953, he met fellow immigrant John Saunders. Lowy was appointed a Director of the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1995, and was reappointed in 2000 and 2003, concluding his term in 2005. [4][5] In 2010, Lowy was ranked No. I didnt know how I am to commemorate him. and
Actually, in a way, in all my sadness, I felt very proud: that my father was able to make such a sacrifice of his life for his principles. When it split into two independent companies. Frank Lowy and his business partner John Saunders founded Westfield in Sydney in 1953. The company has also built dozens of shopping centers and malls outside of Australia in New Zealand, the United States and Britain. His day begins under a high-pressure shower of refrigerated water. The pair became business partners, eventually creating Westfield Development Corporation through the development of a shopping centre at Blacktown in Sydney's western suburbs. The family later moved to Hungary, but when the Nazis invaded the country in March 1944, Lowy's father, Hugo, immediately went to Budapest train station to get tickets for his wife and four children. The company went public two years later and has grown exponentially ever since. As honorary chair of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation, its his pleasure to drive across town and sit around the table, without the obligation to fundraise. We opened a couple of shops and provided them with the continental foods that the immigrants liked. Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.
So, the foreigners that came changed the country. [9][40] In 2010, the BRW magazine measured Lowy's net worth at A$5.04billion, making him Australia's richest person at that time. Where was I and what is this building, I asked and was answered in Australian accented English: Its Mr. Lowys residence. A wood-paneled elevator leads to the floor where the movie was to be screened and where we would hold the interview, interrupted every half hour by an employee asking what the guests would like to eat and drink. They married 18 months later, in 1954, producing three sons and an extended family that now spans four generations and multiple cities. He co-founded global shopping centre company Westfield in 1960 and served as its Executive Chairman for 50 years and then. Indirectly, that is what led to his personal story being revealed to the world. After searching I approached the Auschwitz authorities with the wagon. The effect on me, I carry it all my life. I came home, and my mother and father were at the theater. They were sent to fight in Tiberias; Lowy was wounded but returned to the battlefield after a few days with a bandage on his head. Lowy transferred the management of his business to his sons, Steven, left, and Peter. Frank LowyQuentin Jones It would take 50 years and a chance meeting on the other side of the world between Frank's son Peter and an Auschwitz survivor before he finally learned what happened that day in March 1944, just after the Nazis invaded Hungary. Tragic. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. We provided it. So they looked to other markets. I came home, and my mother and father were at the theater. (ABC News) Mr Lowy arrived in Australia at age 21 with his brother after escaping persecution in Europe during World War II and fleeing as a self-described "boat person" to Palestine. The film, What Will Become of Us, had its Israeli debut a few weeks ago at the DocAviv International Documentary Film Festival in Tel Aviv, and it will soon be broadcast on Hot's Channel 8. One tumultuous fact about their relationship remains that, it wasn't until 1980's that Frank told his wife about his hard past and the holocaust and the killings. The interior was described as a fantasy of architectural design and artistry. Now Lowy is here in Tel Aviv, drinking tea and eating a cookie, and trying fight off a bothersome cold. In 1960 Sir Frank Lowy co-founded the Westfield Group which the Lowy Family managed and built into one of the world's leading shopping centre companies with assets under management of c.$64b in 2014, when it was split into Scentre Group (Westfield branded shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand) and Westfield Corporation (iconic . Widower of Shirley Lowy He is a local icon who has sponsored Australian sports ventures in general, and soccer in particular. They have three sons, Peter and Steven, who managed the Westfield business, and David, who manages the family's private investments. In 2015, he fell off a stage as the A-League trophy was due to be presented. There were a couple hundred thousand Jews, I went to Jewish school and had a wonderful time until 1944 when the Germans occupied Hungary.". Lowy maintained he had not done anything wrong, the matter was settled with the ATO, and no action was taken. ", In 1958, Lowy and Saunders founded Westfield, which has morphed over the years into a global shopping-center giant. It's high on my agenda and I am taking a large philanthropic role in this topic. "I remember that day. Shirley Lowy, 86, was surrounded by family, including her husband and their sons, in Tel Aviv, Israel . His wife Shirley became ill years ago; for the past five years her mental state has deteriorated and Lowy is caring for her in their home. In Israel, it invests in two biotech start-ups, one of which is developing a liquid biopsy that uses body fluids to detect cancer. I remember the hour". You spoke about your feelings when the State of Israel was born. Dec. 19, 2017 9:00 am ET. One weekend, without his partners knowledge, Lowy emptied the management floor the 24th floor of the Westfield tower leaving him all alone in his office up there. 'What a privilege it has been to lead this great Australian company,' an 87-year-old Sir Lowy said in a video statement. Even though there was lots of anti-Semitism, [among] everybody in Europe, you didnt feel it so much. The future seemed wide open.. Its so much easier not being responsible for other peoples money. I finally found out what happened to him. She is survived by Sir Frank, David, Peter, Steven, Margo and Judy Lowy, 11 grandchildren, their partners and seven great-grandchildren. 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The conference room and the other employees moved to the 22nd floor, leaving nothing behind but desolation and silence. Frank Lowy at his home in Tel Aviv, Israel. The family kept in touch through letters via this same messenger, whom they paid for his services. For the past five years her mental state has deteriorated and Lowy is caring for her in their home. In June 2018 Westfield Corporation was acquired by French company Unibail-Rodamco. Levy left with the lifesaving documents: He, his mother, his two brothers and sister survived. When Peter told him, the man turned pale and froze. People were dancing in the street; everybody was happy. He co-founded global shopping centre company Westfield in 1960 and served as its Executive Chairman for 50 years and then as non-executive Chairman between 2011 and 2018 when the company was acquired by Unibail-Rodamco. We went to the heder in the morning, school in the afternoon. Unibail-Rodamco will take over ASX-listed Westfield and transform it into an international property giant with 104 centres across 27 retail markets around the globe, Nine News reports. So I think thats a story in itself. How do you feel about it now? [20], In April 2003 to mark the 50th anniversary of his arrival in Australia, Lowy established the Lowy Institute for International Policy, an independent international policy think tank devoted to foreign affairs, and Australia's role in the world. He worked in construction and then as a clerk in a bank. , updated [19] He made his way to France in 1946, where he boarded the ship Yagur, heading for Mandatory Palestine. People couldnt understand it and, for the first time, the press rounded on him, saying he was a bully, oppressor and intimidator. Instead of waiting in line, he went to a costume store and purchased the uniform of a messenger boy who delivers and collects urgent telegrams. At the time, he continues, the family was living in an apartment. Id had plenty of criticism in my career, it comes with the territory, but Id never encountered such vengeance, he says. After his speech at the inauguration of the new trade center, where he spoke about being a Holocaust survivor and about how renewal and return are the ways to battle terrorism people from the Tribeca Film festival asked to do a documentary about his life. As non-executive chairman, Lowy doesnt actively invest but is in continuous dialogue with his sons. The attempt by the government to destroy the Supreme Court, he answers. And I did, with both hands, he says. Help using this website - Accessibility statement, sold it to French mall giant Unibail-Rodamco for $32 billion. "There is room still to work on a political solution with the Palestinians, and this would have such an enormous impact on the country. Frank Lowy only learned in 1991 that his father had in fact been transported to Auschwitz . After 67 years of being with her, now being without her is the most difficult task of my life. In 1952, Lowy left Israel and joined his family, who had left Europe for Australia and started a business delivering small goods. Alongside these activities, the Lowy family has always been identified with philanthropy. Wealth History HOVER TO REVEAL NET WORTH BY YEAR Forbes Lists #9 Australia's 50 Richest (2023) #363.
Lowy and Olmerts names were also connected in less happy circumstances: during the investigation opened in 2007 by the Israel Police's national fraud squad, on suspicions that while he was finance minister, Olmert tried to influence the tender for the sale of Bank Leumi to help Lowy win the bid. Margo, Lowys biographer, described that move as being very typical of Lowy: effective, cold, determined. Frank Lowy: Pushing the Limits, by Australian journalist Jill Margo, originally came out in 2001. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The bustling Israeli city of Tel Aviv is where Lowy spends a great portion of his time. Having come from abroad, they had no fear of venturing outside Australia and by the late 70s, theyd expanded to the US. At the time, along with friends, he decided to enlist in the Palmach, the elite strike force of the pre-state Haganah underground militia. She was 19, he was 21. For 65 years, Lowy has shared his joys and sorrows with his wife Shirley. It was on the platform in Auschwitz, in front of the tracks. Its kind of a celebration that's once in your lifetime.. This is how Lowy learned that his father was beaten to death with a rifle butt on the tracks at the death camp, when he insisted on holding onto the bag with his tallit and tefillin. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time. Maybe I am talking about the dream of the mashiach [messiah], but even if we can get to 50 percent of this, our situation will be so much better.". In the past three years, Lowy has been back to Australia only once, in 2019. His fortune, which he built from the ground up in the real estate industry, is estimated at $6.3 billion. But we did, says Lowy, we said we would go private and transition from being operators to investors, and thats what we have done. It was only 40 years later by accident that Lowy discovered his fate. We saw that opportunity and borrowed some money and started to do that too. Hes interested in this because its 10 years since he underwent a radical operation for bile duct cancer, which, untreated, would have led to pancreatic cancer. The prototype of a self-made man, Get email notification for articles from Gili Izikovich, Frank Lowy. As they were no longer young, were geographically spread and without a central focus, it was thought they wouldnt hold together. Occasionally, we went to see a soccer match, we snuck away for something like that. My family unit got destroyed, and I was longing for my mother very much. In late 1944, some eight months after the Nazis marched through the streets of Budapest, an idea began to flicker in the mind of 13-year-old Pinhas Levy. Never forget it. The work is not for show, not for publicity and not for recognition. Save. [12] As a mark of respect to Hugo Lowy and other Hungarian Jews, Lowy commissioned the restoration of a railway wagon that had transported Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, and placed the wagon on site at the former concentration camp. It might sound ridiculous, but it had taken many years before he felt financially secure. Josh once interned at the family's Westfield empire, but went on to run his own technology start-up, Hugo. Frank Lowy (second from left) in a pre-war family photo with his father . "I remember I worked in a [family-owned] Jewish delicatessen. The blame there is on bad policy or on poor economic performance, or on certain aspects of life. 1 on the BRW Rich 200 list and in 2013 was ranked second.[3]. [29] In October 2015, Lowy stepped down as the chairman of the Scentre Group, a role that he had held for 55 years. After a few months, Lowy was allowed into Palestine and was brought to the Atlit detainee camp. "We lived a very modest life," Lowy recalls. These days, Lowy has largely abandoned the corporate uniform of his business career. I mean, it was an unbelievable experience. Surely not the sort of atmosphere in which young Pinhas Levy grew up. "He went in the morning and then he disappeared, like it swallowed him up." [24] In 2010, Lowy and his family gifted A$10 million to facilitate the construction of the UNSW Lowy Cancer Research Centre, a collaborative centre of the Childrens Cancer Institute Australia and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. [12], A long supporter of football in Australia, Lowy was elected Chairman of the Football Federation Australia (FFA) in 2003. The Lowy Institute is an Australian non-profit organisation. The man, a Jew of about 70, told him that his name was Lowy, too, and asked where his family came from. I dreamed about him many, many times. They had three sons together, David, Peter and Steven. Having sat through 18 years of scientific meetings at the LMRI, hes picked up bits and pieces and is increasingly intrigued by it. The next morning, I was told that Father had gone to the railway station to see if the trains were traveling. By comparison, his affairs with his original partner, Saunders, ended on a very bitter note. [31] In April 2013, Lowy attended the March of the Living, where he shared the story of how his father perished during the Holocaust, with thousands of young students from around the world who had gathered in Auschwitz-Birkenau to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day. Shirleys illness is also the official excuse for making the documentary that recreated his life. [76] It was reported that a gift of A$30 million was made to establish the Institute. On a December evening in London last year, as the mercury dropped, the Lowy family was warmly ensconced in an apartment hotel in Mayfair. In his biography, one of his lawyers describes this centrality well: Lowy is a person, he said, who never, not even during a 14-hour trans-Atlantic flight, spoke about women, theater or entertainment and at the end of the flight he would hurry to his hotel room to work. Israel became a regular country with regular citizens who want to fulfill their own interests, in an era of 'me first.' The Lowy succession: Three years ago, Frank Lowy, 83, ($7.2 billion) stood down as executive chairman of Westfield, the global shopping centre empire and public company he founded and led for more . View gallery Sir Frank and Lady Lowy met at a. Such was the countrys acceptance of European entrepreneurship that Lowy was not yet 30 when Westfield floated. The media in Israel has rarely reported about Lowys investments in the country over the years. It was at this time that Lowy became an entrepreneur. Children David was born in 1954 and is like father a businessman and has an interest in aviation and music. Although, there is some pressure for Lowy to step aside as Chairman of the FFA when his term expires in October 2011. Leading property coverage delivered to. [32] His son Peter, is chairman of Tribe Media Corp, the parent of the Jewish Journal[33] and served as chairman of the University of Judaism. Lowy maintained he hadn't done anything wrong. Lowy was born in Filakovo (now Slokavia) in 1930. When you think about it, this story is more than just an anecdote: It embodies the essence of the motivation driving Pinhas Levy who for many years has been better known as Frank Lowy, an Australian businessman and one of the richest people in the world. Share. [13] In September 2008, it was announced the Lowy was appointed to the FIFA board. He is the eldest son of Westfield Corporation co-founder Frank Lowy and Principal of Lowy Family Group (LFG), the Family Office and private investment group of the Lowy family. We saw the Germans marching up and down the street. Four or five days later a man in uniform knocked on the door and brought a letter from his father. That passion is evident only in connection with one other thing in Lowy's life his family, he says now, adding that he has always preferred to see his sons by his side as managers and heirs. As a boy, he watched his father pray every morning and now he, too, takes time to pause and do the same. Over the next 30 years, Lowy and Saunders developed shopping centres across Australia and the United States (from 1977); changing the name of the company to the Westfield Group and listing the company on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1960. The ship was supposed to hold 150 passengers but was loaded down with 700. After Tiberias, he and his friends, also foreign-born, continued to Kibbutz Gesher, where they did guard duty. Why are Jews doing this? [11], Married to Shirley, Lowy has three sons, Peter and Steven, who manage the Westfield business, and David, who manages the family's private investments. David Hillel Lowy AM (born 31 December 1954) is an Australian businessman, aviator and musician. And there was a bit of a family gathering [and worries] of What are we going to do now? We knew that it was going to be harder than it was before. Wearing the unmistakable outfit he made his way into the embassy, and when he said he had an important message to deliver the ambassador himself received him in his office. . Frank P. Lowy[1] (1930-10-22) 22 October 1930(age 92) Fiakovo, Czechoslovakia(now Slovakia) Nationality Australian Known for Co-founder, Westfield Board member of Westfield Corporation(1960-2011) Lowy Institute Spouse(s) Shirley, Lady Lowy OAM (neRusanow) (m. 1954; died 2020) Children 3; including Steven Lowy He was present at many of the important junctures in the history of the 20th century. [75], In April 2003 to mark the 50th anniversary of his arrival in Australia, Lowy established the Lowy Institute, an independent international policy think tank devoted to foreign affairs, and Australia's role in the world. [17][18], Lowy was born in Czechoslovakia[3] (in what is now Slovakia), and was forced to live in a ghetto in Hungary during World War II. Nonetheless, before our interview, at a talk moderated by Kobi Meidan after the film was screened at the Cinematheque, when he was asked about what worries him, Lowy spoke about the concept of "home" in a broader way. It was a Sunday afternoon, March 19. Things settled and in 2016, he was opening a new Westfield mall in the rebuilt World Trade Centre in New York. The centre of his life had gradually shifted and with the business sold in late 2017, he wanted to make the best of the time left. Sir Lowy will retire as chairman of Westfield but will chair the advisory board of the new company, while his sons will remain in leadership roles. [77] In 2010, Lowy and his family donated A$10million to facilitate the construction of the UNSW Lowy Cancer Research Centre, a collaborative centre of the Children's Cancer Institute Australia and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. The Lowy family are long-time supporters of Association football in Australia, with Peter's father Frank Lowy and brother Steven acting as Chairman of the Football Federation Australia (FFA) from 2003 to November 2015 and 2015 to 2018. 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