Ernest Lens (1890-1962) was born Ernst Czuckza in Vienna, Austria. He finished gymnasium in 1912, and then studied law and social sciences in Berlin and Vienna. From 1918 to 1933, he was an administrator in business and welfare organizations. He married Richard Beer-Hofmann's daughter Miriam in 1924. They emigrated to Amsterdam in 1934, Paris in 1936, Great Britain in 1938, and the United States in 1940. Upon naturalization in 1947, they changed their surname to Lens. Ernest held various jobs in the United States, including as a bookseller, until he became the manager of the archives and blueprint repository for Loewy Hydropress Company in 1949. He retired in 1960, and died in 1962. Miriam Beer-Hofmann Lens died in New York in 1984.
From the guide to the Ernest Lens Collection, undated, 1910-1961, (Leo Baeck Institute)
