Manufactured goods business - Gebrüder Loeb

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The address book of the town of Boppard for the year 1895 contains the following entries: Loeb Michel, merchant and grain merchant, Judengasse 21, - Loeb Moses, merchant, Franziskanerstra<e 7. - in an advertisement in "Der Israelit" of November 26, 1896 the following job advertisement "Kommisstelle. For the comptoir and warehouse of my colonial goods store I am looking for a commissioner. Preference will be given to applicants with branch experience. Lazarus Löb, Boppard am Rhein.

Gret Palucca - expressive dancer, dance teacher and founder of the Palucca School Dresden

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Gret Palucca was born Margarethe Paluka in Munich on January 8, 1902. Her non-Jewish father Max Paluka was a pharmacist and married Rosa, née Merfeld, who was of Jewish-Hungarian descent. After her parents' failed attempt to gain a foothold in San Francis, California, Gret Palucca returned to Germany with her mother and brother Hans in 1909 and came to Dresden. Her artistic talent became apparent early on and she took ballet lessons with Heinrich Krümler in 1914 before becoming a pupil of Mary Wigman, one of the founders of expressive dance.

Forum Jacob Pins

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The painter and graphic artist Jacob Pins, born in Höxter on January 17, 1917, fled the Nazi persecution of Jews to Palestine, but after the war he reconnected with the city of his birth and donated his artistic estate to Höxter. In 2003, the city of Höxter made him an honorary citizen. Jacob Pins died on Dec. 4, 2005 in Jerusalem.
The Jacob Pins Gesellschaft – Kunstverein Höxter documents and administers the foundation, which comprises hundreds of works, and also offers an exhibition forum to other selected artists of different backgrounds.

The Jewish retraining and deployment camp on Grüner Weg

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Jüdisches Umschulungs- und Einsatzlager am Grünen Weg in Paderborn. „This camp was founded at the end of June 1939 as a so-called Hachsharah kibbutz. In a contract between the „Reich Association of German Jews“ and the city of Paderborn, the plot of land on Grünen Weg „was made available free of charge so that young Jews could be trained in the course of Jewish self-help;dian self-help, young Jews could be trained for physical, mainly agricultural and horticultural work in preparation for their emigration“.