Men & boys confection - Max Spiegel

In 1888, Max Spiegel founded a store for men's and boys' clothing at Cramergasse 9. He was also co-owner of the Lindau and Constance clothing store Spiegel & Wolf in Maximilianstrasse. Emil Spiegel took over Max Spiegel's business at the turn of the century. In February 1938, the Spiegel family had to sell their business to their former employee in the course of the so-called " Aryanization ". One day later, the proceeds of the sale were confiscated except for one mark. The children Joseph and Ella Spiegel managed to emigrate to the USA in the same year. Emil Spiegel and his wife Clothilde, née Neuburger were deported to Theresienstadt in August 1942. Emil Spiegel became a victim of the living conditions prevailing in Theresienstadt as early as December 24, 1942. Clothilde Spiegel was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on May 18, 1944, and was probably murdered there on the same day. The daughter Martha Spiegel, who remained with her parents, was already deported to the Piaski concentration camp ghetto near Lublin in Poland in April 1942. A card from the Treblinka labor and extermination camp to her brother Paul, who lived in Cologne, is the last sign of life of Martha Spiegel, who was presumably murdered in Treblinka.