Shoe store - Emanuel Polatschek

Emanuel Polatschek, the brothers Alois and Hermann Polatschek founded each for himself a shoe store. Emanuel Polatschek in Augsburg, Alois Polatschek in Ulm and Hermann Polatschek in Nuremberg. Already before 1933, in February 1931, the calls for boycotts against Jewish businesses began in Augsburg with an advertisement in the Neue Nationalzeitung. These finally culminated in a massive boycott of Augsburg's Jewish stores in April 1933, where not only did the calls remain, but posts with banners were set up in front of the shops - in front of the Polatschek shoe store with the  banner: "Germans avoid this Jewish store" and handbills with corresponding propaganda were distributed to passers-by. In June 1935, the display window of a Jewish cloth store was smashed by a stone thrown. This was followed in July 1935 by graffiti on the windows of several Jewish stores. With the so-called "Aryanization" of Jewish businesses and stores, the shoe store Polatschek also changed its owner. In 1938 the sale of the residential building took place. In 1942 at the latest, the Polatschek couple managed to emigrate - fleeing to Haifa. The sons Siegfied and Otto emigrated to Los Angeles already in 1938.