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. He and fellow European emigre John Saunders had started out as partners in a delicatessen in 1955. Collectively, Lowy and his three sons had put more than 150 years into Westfield and had worked together like a business machine, relentlessly pushing forward. Without a doubt his ingenuity and fierce ambition helped Lowy, who is today 88 years old, become the prototype of a self-made man, which is in itself a gross understatement. Israel became a regular country with regular citizens who want to fulfill their own interests, in an era of 'me first.' In spite of this, the demerger went ahead in 2014 and created more than $10 billion in shareholder value. The real estate activity started: housing for the immigrants. I know it all the time, but I dont live it. Massimo Marinelli Australian shopping giant Westfield was taken over by a European corporation in a deal worth $32.8 billion in December. Hitler didnt discriminate between Orthodox and secular Jews. When asked about the key junctures in his life, Lowy mentions the move to Budapest and then, as an older youth, to Mandatory Palestine. His day begins under a high-pressure shower of refrigerated water. Lowy has a reputation for giving of his time and financial support to a broad range of causes. When he heard that, he laughed. [83] On 2 October 2007 Lowy received the Henni Friedlander Award for the Common Good at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States. [22], Lowy was appointed a Director of the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1995, was reappointed in 2000 and 2003, and concluded his term in 2005. "We were not rich at all. . [34], In an Australian television production broadcast in 2010, called Family Confidential, it was revealed that Lowy had kept a secret about his survival in Nazi occupied Hungary. In 2010, amid allegations of bribery, politics, and back-scratching,[14][15][16] FIFA awarded Qatar the rights to host the World Cup. [citation needed] As a 13-year-old boy, Lowy had never known about the loss of his father, Hugo Lowy, who was beaten to death at Auschwitz concentration camp for refusing to leave his Jewish prayer shawl (Talit and Tefilin) behind. [25][26], In 2008 Lowy was honoured by Australia Post for his contribution to philanthropy as one of the nation's five leading, living philanthropists with a commemorative postage stamp that was released on the eve of Australia Day as part of the Australian Legends series.[27]. Although, there is some pressure for Lowy to step aside as Chairman of the FFA when his term expires in October 2011. 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. The Lowy Institute is an Australian non-profit organisation. Lowy was 15 and a half at the time and recalls being taken with other Jewish youths from Prague to Paris (I remember I had ice cream. Lowy with his wife Shirley. Its unbelievable. While widely complimented on his sense of timing, privately he thought hed probably waited a bit too long. Geni requires JavaScript! "On the first floor, there was a window just similar to this, just the window. 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The man, a Jew of about 70, told him that his name was Lowy, too, and asked where his family came from. For 65 years, Lowy has shared his joys and sorrows with his wife Shirley. This caused mayhem. It was after they have had 3 sons, Stephen, Peter and David. Widower of Shirley Lowy 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. Lowy also sold the last of his shares in Sydney FC at that time. I was about 17 then. I dont quite know how to handle it. In the past three years, Lowy has been back to Australia only once, in 2019. Were active but patient investors. [6] He is a former Chairman of Scentre Group, the owner and manager of Westfield-branded shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand. It wasnt intended nor apparent at the time, but the firstborn had begun building the bridge that would eventually take his father and brothers into new territory as private investors. For almost two decades hed been visiting Israel, reconnecting with people he knew from his past and growing a new social circle. [22], On 2 October 2007 Lowy received the Henni Friedlander Award for the Common Good at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States. Sir Frank Lowy AC founded the Lowy Institute in 2003. The tight-knit family made a huge impression on Lowy and sparked the desire to create his own family which he did. In a way," he tells me now, "Ive never left Israel. The attempt by the government to destroy the Supreme Court, he answers. At 15, he left Europe as an illegal immigrant, alone on a crowded boat sailing for Palestine. Australian billionaire and philanthropist Sir Frank Lowy walking on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv after making aliyah, May 2019. Jill has won multiple prizes, including two Walkley Awards and is an adjunct associate professor at School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia. There have been items regarding failed attempts to invest in various enterprises, including the IDB conglomerate, but what's more frequently mentioned are Lowys ties to senior politicians, including former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. It was a Sunday afternoon, March 19. I lived in very, very poor circumstances, but I was okay. It was the seventh shopping centre built by the company in its first five years of operation. Im 88 years old and Im still mourning him because its such a drama for me. The way to rescue his family from the Germans and the terrible fate awaiting them, he realized, involved deception. The family loves football analogies and, in business, one of its rules is to play the ball, never the man. In 2010, the Business Review Weekly measured Lowy's wealth at A$5.04 billion, making him Australia's richest person at that time. But then [I thought]: I havent been to Auschwitz. From the pages of history: Westfield Centre in Wollongong, NSW, opens. Sir Frank Lowy puts his success down to never giving up. 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. His mother had a small shop there. Four years after Westfield co-founder Sir Frank Lowy made one of the most prescient deals in Australian corporate history when he began to sell . The billionaire Lowy family fortune has gone global. [24] In 2008 Lowy and related interests were mentioned in documents stolen from the LGT Bank of Liechtenstein by a former employee. However, he was caught on route by the British authorities and interned in a detention camp in Cyprus. The Lowy Concert Hall is the orchestras home. Lowy and his wife, Shirley, moved to Israel in 2018 after the sale of Westfield. He has also donated generously to soccer in Australia and helped turned the sport into a local source of pride; he served as chairman of the Football Federation Australia and was a member of FIFAs executive committee. 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. [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. Sir Frank ranks No.7 on this year's Financial Review . I left in late 1947, to find work in Haifa. [17] In 2000 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his service to the community through the development of the property industry and expansion of the retail sector in Australia and internationally, and as philanthropist committed to support of wide ranging social and cultural endeavours. But the population was small, and he and Saunders used to walk up and down the Rose Bay waterfront, worrying whether there would ever be enough shoppers to fill all the new malls they intended to build. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Never forget it. [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. 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. From the way he expressed himself, to his ability to persuade others, to his readiness to work at anything, he was unlike anyone I had ever encountered. [23], Together with the Packer family, in 2008 Lowy made a gift of an undisclosed amount towards the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. But now, he rarely thinks of Westfield, his former obsession. [9][10] After turning 80 in October 2010, effective May 2011, Lowy officially stood down as Executive Chairman of the Westfield Group, taking on the role of Non-Executive Chairman. This is his fourth language and to improve his expression and attune his ear to nuance, he continues to take private lessons. When Saunders wanted to sell his share in Westfield to Lowy after decades of partnership, Lowy agreed to Saunders price but their relationship went south. 'What a privilege it has been to lead this great Australian company,' an 87-year-old Sir Lowy said in a video statement. [70] In 2010, amid allegations of bribery, politics, and back-scratching,[71][72][73] FIFA awarded Qatar the rights to host the World Cup. While the INSS is politically agnostic, Lowy describes himself as a liberal democrat with an abiding interest in Middle Eastern politics and foreign policy. In December last year, she passed away. My family was forced out of Slovakia because we were Jewish. . Reporting on Westfields upcoming float, on April 14, 1960, The Australian Financial Review noted its Blacktown shopping centre, in western Sydney, was one of the first of its kind in Australia. [6][7][8] Lowy has appeared on the BRW Rich 200 list every year since it was first published in 1983. [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. 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. Where others saw black and white, he saw gradations.. The institute was created after one of his sons was diagnosed with a little-understood eye disease. Sir Frank is a principal of the group, along with his three sons, David, Peter and Steven. Australia also has some corruption in certain places, but it doesnt come close to the levels and accusations [relating to] politicians and ministers here.. Westfield Corporation Westfield Group was an Australian shopping center company that existed from 1960 to 2014. And we decided to join the family after being here six years'. At the same time, she also described family dramas and conflicts that arose when the sons and their wives felt too much intrusion into their own lives. In June 2018 Westfield Corporation was acquired by French company Unibail-Rodamco. [4][5] In 2010, Lowy was ranked No. Westfield, owned by businessman Sir Frank Lowy, accepted the multi-billion dollar bid from French retail group Unibail-Rodamco 64 years after it was founded in Sydney. Sons, Steven and Peter, became joint chief executives. 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. They have three sons, Peter Lowy and Steven Lowy, both sons worked for Frank at Westfield Corporation. I mean, it was an unbelievable experience. The foreigners were really craving continental foods, sausages and all that cheese, tomatoes. The walls and shelves and table in the room are covered with impressive artwork. Lowy has established medical research centers, an independent think tank on foreign affairs and, with his wife, a foundation serving the Jewish community. The deal came only days after Sir Lowy received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle. Frank Lowy (second from left) in a pre-war family photo with his father . My family unit got destroyed, and I was longing for my mother very much. This way, the equity is well used. The Financial Review Platinum 70 magazine is out on Friday, August 20. I didnt know how I would behave when I go to Auschwitz. For example, he mentions the terrible loneliness he suffered when he made aliyah to Israel as a youth, and the wretched poverty that forced him to live in the unfinished houses that he was building as a construction worker, but concludes with: But I was okay.. Do you think you did things during your life, thinking about what your father would have said about them? Very simple," Sir Frank said in an interview with Israel's Channel 12. April Glover For Daily Mail Australia World War II had just ended, his fathers fate was still unknown, but the rest of the family was able to reunite. [75] Together with the Packer family, in 2008 Lowy donated an undisclosed amount towards the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. We saw that opportunity and borrowed some money and started to do that too. Having come from abroad, they had no fear of venturing outside Australia and by the late 70s, theyd expanded to the US. After searching I approached the Auschwitz authorities with the wagon. ", In 1958, Lowy and Saunders founded Westfield, which has morphed over the years into a global shopping-center giant. I wanted it so much, to have that family unit restored. In 1953, he met fellow Hungarian immigrant John Saunders. They met less than a year after he arrived in Australia. I envied it. Hes now on his boat in the south of France. Before they moved into their house, Shirley had found and carefully replanted a 300-year-old olive tree to shade the front door. 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. Australia's Lowy family, which built Westfield Corp. into one of the world's largest shopping center owners, resembles other global real estate dynasties in . After breakfast overlooking the Mediterranean, he usually goes to his study, where his workday begins. By In 2007 Lowy commenced a campaign to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Australia backed with a $46 million support from the Australian Government. Then, as Frank Lowy tells us now, the man told Peter that he had been on the train to Auschwitz with his grandfather. [68] Some observers credit him and John O'Neill, a former rugby union executive, with resurrecting soccer in Australia. The work is not for show, not for publicity and not for recognition. Unofficially, the institute is considered to be center-left politically and has in the past called for examining the possibility of a unilateral withdrawal by Israel from parts of the West Bank. They had three sons together, David, Peter and Steven. Lowy. It was just after my bar mitzvah and it was so tragic. The country embraced it, followed it, supported it and attended the games and it boomed, going from insolvency to revenue of around $100 million a year.. This helps to keep me intellectually alive, active and socially engaged, he says. After a few months, Lowy was allowed into Palestine and was brought to the Atlit detainee camp. Text. Lowy and Saunders were innovators and early adopters. Sir Lowy and his sons intend to maintain a financial stake in the newly combined entity. He saw the rise of the Nazis with his own eyes, immigrated to Palestine and played a part in the founding of Israel, went from being a penniless immigrant to a billionaire in Australia, and was one of the owners of Manhattan's World Trade Center that was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks which he later helped to rebuild. I left in late 1947, to find work in Haifa. [81] In 2002, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Ehud Barak in Dublin, Ireland. His fortune, which he built from the ground up in the real estate industry, is estimated at $6.3 billion. The local press has been particularly excited by his multi-deck yacht, Ilona, one of the largest and most luxurious in the world, which from time to time has anchored in Israeli territorial waters, and on which Lowy has hosted dignitaries including former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. 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. People thought the sale was the familys finale. It was on the platform in Auschwitz, in front of the tracks. The owners were a Jewish couple whose son and daughter would join them in the afternoons, working with them and then going home together. Lowy transferred the management of his business to his sons, Steven, left, and Peter. It was just after my bar mitzvah and it was so tragic'. How will I feel? The company went public two years later and has grown exponentially ever since. But young Levy was resourceful. As his eyesight has weakened, he prefers that his secretary read him his emails. The Westfield tycoon was not the only well-known guest, with the groom's uncle David Lowy of American band Dead Daisies fame also in attendance. Tragic. They may not want to hear me, but they cant force me out. Even though there was lots of anti-Semitism, [among] everybody in Europe, you didnt feel it so much. To give you a picture of Sydney in the early 1950s there were no coffee shops. He would leave home on Monday and return on Friday, to the synagogue and the singing of the Sabbath-eve Lekha Dodi hymn. Meanwhile, his other son, David Lowy focused his attention on managing Lowy's family's private investments and assets. At 25, when he and Saunders began their building company, they were on the heels of other Europeans, particularly Albert Scheinberg and Ervin Graf, who founded Stockland. [12], A long supporter of football in Australia, Lowy was elected Chairman of the Football Federation Australia (FFA) in 2003. In 1952, Lowy left Israel and joined his family, who had left Europe for Australia and started a business delivering small goods. 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 grandson of Westfield Corp founder Frank Lowy has married his partner in an extravagant multi-million dollar wedding. Steven remained in charge until significant changes in the structure of the FFA caused him to resign. [22] Saunders sold his interests and left the company in 1987. I came home, and my mother and father were at the theater. They have three sons, Peter and Steven, who managed the Westfield business, and David, who manages the family's private investments. 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I no longer have that many two-week periods left, and I dont want to be locked up for one of them, he says. Dec. 19, 2017 9:00 am ET. Saunders sold his interests and left the company in 1987; meanwhile Lowy took the company to New Zealand (in the 1990s) and the United Kingdom (in the 2000s). Margo, Lowys biographer, described that move as being very typical of Lowy: effective, cold, determined. 'We started small, but we took Westfield to the world.'. The Slovakia-born businessman said it made sense to sell now because it was a 'very good price' for shareholders, but acknowledged that the sale partly reflected the global trend of consolidation and the pressures on retailers. [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. Unexpectedly, part of his working week is also spent on the periphery of science, through the Lowy Medical Research Institute. 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. Frank Lowy: I have seniority in LFG [Lowy Family Group] but I use it extremely rarely and with great care. There were hardly any restaurants. All the Australian and New Zealand assets would go into a new company called Scentre Group, while all international assets would go into Westfield. Frank Lowy founded Westfield Corporation, a global shopping center empire that has approximately $30 billion in assets under management. We dont want to sit on our laurels, and we dont want lazy capital. And there was a couch in front of it, and I was kneeling on the couch for days waiting for him to come home.". Frank Lowy. He made his way to France in 1946, where he left on the ship Yagur, but was caught en route to British Mandate of Palestine by the British and deported to the detention camp in Cyprus. It was unbelievable), to Marseilles and on to the illegal immigrant ship Yagur, heading for Palestine. The pair became business partners, eventually creating Westfield Development Corporation through the development of a shopping centre at Blacktown in Sydney's western suburbs. (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. 'I remember that day. "I remember I worked in a [family-owned] Jewish delicatessen. For this we fought? In 2015, he fell off a stage as the A-League trophy was due to be presented. The family kept in touch through letters via this same messenger, whom they paid for his services. He envisioned a place where his entire family - three sons, 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren - could stay together in Israel. [7][8], With an assessed net worth of A$8.51billion in 2021, Lowy was ranked as the ninth richest Australian according to the Financial Review Rich List;[9] having been the richest person in Australia during 2010. Lowy married Shirley Rusanow in 1954, having met at a Jewish dance when he was 21. After that, when he attended local games, supporters would surround his car chanting Frankie, Frankie! At the height of their enthusiasm, they took up the call Frankie for prime minister. Our interview was held a short time before Lowy traveled to New York for the screening of What Will Become of Us, after his staff arranged a private screening of it for me in a room on the sixth floor of the building where he lives. 1 on the BRW Rich 200 list and in 2013 was ranked second.[3]. It might sound ridiculous, but it had taken many years before he felt financially secure. He envisioned a place where his entire family three sons, 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren could stay together in Israel. In 1942, as the atmosphere worsened and anti-Semitism began to poison their lives, Lowys parents decided to leave town. If you needed help, someone would help you. The future seemed wide open.. Son of Hugo Lwy and Ilona Lwy David Lowy is a Principal of LFG, the private investment business and family office of the Lowy Family Group. We went to the heder in the morning, school in the afternoon. A short time later he decided to leave the country. COVID-19 completely ruled out last year, and he was hoping for this year but was deterred by quarantine. You know? A long time supporter of Association football in Australia, Lowy was Chairman of the Football Federation Australia (FFA) from 2003 to November 2015. 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