Law firm - Dr. Otto Elias

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The Dortmund address book from 1930 contains the following entry:  Elias Otto, Dr., Rechtsanwalt u. Notar, F 37352, Hansastr.50, Wohn: Prinz-Friedrich-Karl Str.15. - Otto (Salomon) Elias was born in Dortmund in March 1876. His parents were the merchant Adolph Elias and Julie, née Schwarz. On June 3, 1899, Otto Elias received his doctorate in Erlangen on the subject of „The loan mortgage according to common and civil law“. From 1907, the lawyer worked in a law firm partnership with his brother-in-law Dr.

Department store Rud. Conitzer

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Rudolf Conitzer was born in 1851 in Jeschewo, a small village outside Schwetz. His father Moses Conitzer had a small department store there. Rudolf worked in this department store from the age of 13 and helped his father to expand the business for the next 14 years.

In 1878, Rudolf Conitzer founded his own company under the name Kaufhaus Rud. In 1911, it was the largest business in the area. After the end of the First World War, it was closed for several years until it was sold for a third of its value in 1929. The house still stands on the market square today.

Former Jewish cemetery Halle - Gottesackerstraße

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On June 21, 1692, the merchant Assur Marx (who lived from 1699 to 1730 in the building at Groäe Märkerstraße 14, which is still standing) was able to purchase a garden for the Jews living in Halle to create a cemetery. In the following years, foreign Jews who died at the Leipzig Trade Fair were also buried in this cemetery. In 1716, it was extended by the purchase of a neighboring plot of land. It was used until the new cemetery was built at the end of the 1860s. In 1937, the cemetery was destroyed by the National Socialists.

Malt manufacturer - Hermann Eisenberg

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The address book of the city of Erfurt from 1909 contains the following entries: Eisenberg Hermann, merchant and malt manufacturer, Schillerstr. 7 - Company: J. Eisenberg, malt factory in Jlversgegehofen (factory and office), Jlversgehofen, railroad station and Schillerstr. 7 - Eisenberg Julius, merchant and malt factory, Schillerstr.44/1./J. Eisenberg,Jlversgehofen,Bahnhof u, Schillerstr.44/1.

Textile store and home of the Nathan merchant family

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Worship services were held in the home and business premises of Mendel Nathan - head of the Jewish community of Bodenteich-Hankensbüttel-Wittingen from 1863 to 1874. The Nathan fashion and textile business had existed since 1809. His descendants had a new residential and commercial building built here in 1912 by the Celle architect Otto Haesler, who is considered one of the leading architects of modernism.

Memorial on the square at the old synagogue

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The central place of remembrance and commemoration for the murdered Jews of Paderborn has been the memorial created by Per Kirkeby on the square „An der Alten Synagoge“ since 1993.The memorial was created in brick, typical for the artist Kirkeby, and for Paderborn in yellow with reddish horizontal stripes. The material, color scheme and design are reminiscent of the destroyed synagogue.