Jewish community with synagogue
Bank director, Royal Serbian Consul General - Julius Auspitzer
Julius Auspitzer was born in Vienna on November 20, 1853. His parents were Samson Salomon Auspitzer, born on December 3, 1816 in Nikolsburg (M hren) and Jeanette Goldberger de Buda, born on March 24, 1821 in Alt-Ofen, (Hungary). Julius Auspitzer was married to Helene Auspitzer, née Heller, born on June 25, 1863 in Bratislava (Preßburg). Her parents were Moritz Heller, born on June 24, 1836 and Friederike Heller, née Rosenberg, born in 1844.
Sally Lennhoff Gang
The Jewish merchant and trained master tailor Simon (called Sally) Lennhoff (1871–1943) was posthumously honored on October 22, 1987. A 32-metre-long pedestrian passageway from Marktstrasse 8 to the parking lot of the Soltau City Service Centre has borne his name ever since - the Sally Lennhoff Walkway.
Sally Lennhoff and his family were victims of National Socialist persecution. His business was destroyed during the Kristallnacht in November 1938. He was later deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where he died on November 26 or 27, 1943 as a result of mistreatment.
Simon-Aron-Gang / parking lot City-Service-Center
The Jewish cattle farmer Simon Aron (1839-1926) worked for 43 years as an elected honorary overseer of the poor and district leader for the town of Soltau. He was also a co-founder of the Soltau Liedertafel in 1887. He bequeathed his estate to the town for the preservation and maintenance of the Jewish cemetery on Böningweg. This was significant, as cemeteries belonging to Jewish communities were historically often endangered. In 1936, the funds left behind, which were to be used for specific purposes, were confiscated by the then mayor Willy Klapproth.
"Jacob Waitzfelder & Cie."
From 1883, Jacob Waitzfelder (1844–1903), a merchant from Mönchsdeggingen, ran a leather business together with Sigmund Oettinger under the name „Jacob Waitzfelder & Cie.“. Prior to this, Waitzfelder had already been running a leather business at the same location for twelve years. In 1903, Jacob Waitzfelder's son Bernhard (born in Augsburg in 1875) joined the company as a partner. After Jacob Waitzfelder s death in the same year, his widow Deborah, née Oettinger, (1854–1927) also became a partner.
Manufactured goods and textile store Sally Lennhoff
Since the 1980s, local politicians in Soltau have been grappling with questions of an appropriate and historically responsible culture of remembrance of the Shoah.
Former Saarburg synagogue with memorial plaque
Textile store - Emil Baldauf
The roots of the Baldauf family lie in Binswangen, where Nathan Baldauf, born on July 2, 1847, lived with his family and ran a large textile business.
Haberdashery - Franziska Rager
The Berlin address book from 1920 contains the following entry: Franziska Rager, Spitzen, Weißßwaren u. Blusen, Schöneberg, Bayerischer Platz 10, Erdgeschoß, T. Steph. 3269., Wohnung: NW 23, Klopstockstraße 26. - Entry of the business in the commercial register - 1916 - expired 1939 - Franziska Rager, born on May 1, 1883 in Berlin was deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on October 3, 1942 and from there to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp on September 6, 1943 and murdered there.
Factory wholesaler for cloth gloves, hosiery and woolen goods - Ferd. Dreyfuß & Moritz
The Frankfurt address book from 1923 contains the following entry: Ferd. Dreyfuß & Moritz, Großhandlung, Fabrik und Export von Damenhandschuhen, Strumpf- u. Wollwaren, Verkauf, Kontor, Lager u,d Verwaltung: Bürger-Str. 9.11., (Tel. Hansa 3729,3730,3731 Röm 4005,4006,4007). (BK Reichsk. D. & J. de Neufville, Darmst. u. Nationalbk., Dresdner Bk., Grunelius & Co., Postscheck-K. 4690), dispatch: Post-Str.8a, Tel. (Hansa 3970). Owner Ferd. Dreyfuß. Collective proc. Moses Rosenstock, Karl Lindenkohl, Arthur Kühnrich, Fritz Cahn, Selma Isenberg, Fdr. Schröder u. Sigf. Rossmann.