Old town hall Hochberg

The Jewish cattle and horse dealer Ascher Weis built the house. Since 1887 it housed not only the office of the sheriff, the council chamber, the local jail and the fire department fire engine magazine. In the attic there was a rented apartment, which was occupied by the Kusiel family, one of the last Jewish families in Hochberg, from 1892 to 1905. Salomon Kusiel and Fanny Kusiel lived here with their three children Alice, Peppi and Siegfried. Salomon Kusiel died in exile in the Netherlands in 1940. Fanny Kusiel was murdered in the Sobibor concentration camp in 1943. Siegfried Kusiel survived the German occupation in the Netherlands under a false name. Alice and Peppi were able to emigrate to the USA. Alice Kusiel's memoirs (see related links) tell of her childhood in Hochberg.