Louis Kapelowitz

Louis Kapelowitz alias KAPEL or CAPEL.

Was director of the Foreign Excellent Raincoat Company who may have been involved to some extent in his
brother-in-law, Grossvogel's, activities for the R.U. in Belgium.

Address.

80 Avenue Boenendaal, Uccle, Belgium (1940).

Personal particulars.

Nationality: Czechoslovak.

Date of birth of birth: 13-07-1891 in Kassa.

Relatives: wife Sarah,nee Grossvogel, Leon Grossvogel's sister, resident in 89 Herzl Street, Tel Aviv. Sisters married to Maurice Padewer and Adolph Lerner, co-directors of the Raincoat Co.

History.

Became director of the Excellent Raincoat Company in June 1936, "Au Roi du Caoutchouc" Brussels.

Became director of the Foreign Excellent Raincoat Company in December 1938.

Fled to France in the summer of 1940 following the German invasion of Belgium.

Subsequently returned and lived underground in Brussels for two years.

Escaped to Switzerland in 1943.

Returned to Belgium in November 1944 to resume his business.

In de beginning of 1947 went to Palestine with his wife, who returned to Belgium on 10-01-1947.

Left Palestine on 21-04-1947 for Belgium.

Attempted to return to Palestine by the end of 1947.