Department store - Leonhard Tietz

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Leonhard Tietz was born on March 3, 1849 in Birnbaum in the province of Posen. His career as a department store entrepreneur began in Stralsund with the opening of a small textile store (yarn, button, trimming and woolen goods store) on August 14, 1879. The store in Stralsund was followed by a similar store in Elberfeld in 1882, then another store in Schweinfurt in 1884 and in Amberg in 1888. When the store in Elberfeld became too small, Leonhard Tietz realized his long-cherished wish and built his first multi-line department store there in 1885.

Cloth and sheep's wool goods - Jac. Lichtenstern & Sons

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The address book of the city of Vienna from 1886 contains the following entry: Lichtenstern Jakob, Jac. Lichtenstern & Söhne, Tuch- und Schafwollwaren - Ndlge., Salzgries 1 - Jacob LIchtenstern was born around 1808 in Mikulov /Republic of the Czech Republic. He was married to Angelika Carolina Gassinger, born in 1817 in Miroslav / Republic of the Czech Republic.

Hermine Ellinger

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Hermine Westheimer was born in M nchen on June 6, 1883.  Her parents Salomon Ellinger, a merchant in M nchen and Karolina Ellinger, née Koch. On December 6, 1904, Hermine Westheimer married Dr. Max Ellinger, lawyer and councillor of justice, born on October 12, 1875 in München. In the announcements of the israel. Kultusgemeinde München in the Bayerische Israelitische Gemeindezeitung of March 15, 1929, Hermine Ellinger is listed in the committee for social affairs. Her husband, Dr. Max Ellinger, died on September 27, 1934 in Munich.

Haberdashery and toy shop - Anton Lederer

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Anton Lederer was born on January 20, 1844  in Forchheim. He was married to Charlotte Rauh, born on August 17  1847 in Altenkunstadt. The couple had eight children, -  Rose, married name Krafft, born on May 2, 1870 in Bamberg, - Sophie, married name Weilheimer, born on April 13, 1871 in Bamberg, - Dr. Philipp Lederer, born on August 25, 1872 in Bamberg, - Paula, married name Reichenberg, born on September 8, 1873 in Bamberg, - Henriette, married name Pick, born on December 30, 1874 in Bamberg.

The Egger family

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Ernst Joseph Egger and his wife Fanny Egger, born on July 12, 1870, were the owners of the house at Mommsengasse 25. They lived at the address until the Gestapo picked up the elderly couple in 1944 because of their Jewish origins. Fanny was imprisoned in the Rossau barracks, where she died shortly afterwards as a result of mistreatment by the guards. Ernst was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and murdered on December 9, 1944. The couple's two daughters, Elisabeth and Marianne, are also taken away and deported.

Warburger Straße / Peter-Hille-Weg retention basin, excavated by Jewish camp inmates of the so-called "Grüner Weg" Jewish retraining camp.

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In 1941, the city of Paderborn had underground reservoirs and open ponds built as part of preventive air-raid protection measures. These included the Warburger Straße / Peter-Hille-Weg pond, which was also designed as a retention basin for rainwater. It was dug by the inmates of the so-called retraining camp „Grüner Weg“. See also "Das jüdische Umschulungs- und Einsatzlager Grüner Weg"  in the category "Bildung".