Lehmann family fur store (Bernau)

On the left side of the street was the fur store of the Lehmann family. In the course of the city redevelopment in 1978, this house was also demolished. Two brothers of the Lehmann family were practicing Christians. The entire Willi Lehmann family was transported to the ghetto in Warsaw. The brother, Eugen Lehmann, organized contact with the family and food deliveries from Bernau. With his support, Willi and his wife were able to work outside the ghetto in a fur factory. They managed to escape from the ghetto shortly before the uprising. The children were smuggled out of the ghetto hidden under furs, found shelter with a Polish doctor's family, and were then taken by train to Berlin by the Polish woman. There the woman left the children to their own devices. The children asked for help at the first door, called their uncle in Bernau, and were placed with relatives in Lichtenberg. Then Margarete Lehmann also fled the ghetto. She was accommodated in a summer cottage in Wullwinkel near Bernau and provided with food. Later, the escape continued to the Ore Mountains. Near a place on the Czech border, the three survived until the stream of refugees came from the East. Then they registered as refugees from Upper Silesia and received ration cards and papers. Finally, Willi fled to Neustrelitz with the help of a railroad man and hid there with his sister until the end of the war. After the end of the war, the family reunited in Bernau, moved into the old apartment and lived in Bernau until 1960. Then they left the GDR.