Otto Landsberg worked as a book and art dealer in the family business "S.L. Landsberg" in Oldenburg. With his wife Martha he had two children together: Ursula and Hans.
Due to his Jewish roots, he was arrested and deported during the Nazi era. The persecution of Jews forced the two children to leave Germany without their parents already at that time. They emigrated to England. After his release, Otto also emigrated to England together with his wife.
Hindenburgstraße 30
26122 Oldenburg
Germany
Otto Ludwig Landsberg was born on July 11, 1891, the eldest of five children (Walter *1892, Ludwig *1893, Kurt *1896, Anna *1900) of Flora (née Cohn) and Moritz Landsberg in Oldenburg. Until 1924, the family lived at Hindenburgstraße 30 in Oldenburg.
Theaterwall 24
26122 Oldenburg
Germany
Otto Landsberg married Martha (née Cohnheim), who was born in Gleidingen near Hanover on June 28, 1893. In 1924, the Landsberg family moved their residence from Hindenburgstraße 30 to Theaterwall 24 in Oldenburg.
On April 02, 1924, Otto and Martha's first child Ursula saw the light of day. Four years later, Hans was born on September 29, 1928. Both children attended the Jewish elementary school in Oldenburg, as the family belonged to the then socially more highly regarded group of merchants in retail and wholesale trade.
Schüttingstraße 7
26122 Oldenburg
Germany
The Landsbergs owned the family-run book and art store "S.L. Landsberg" at Schüttingstraße 7, which was located directly in downtown Oldenburg. The book and art shop was founded by Otto's grandfather Samuel Levi Landsberg. Otto took over the business and thus followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. At the end of 1936, in the course of the leadership of the National Socialist regime, he was forbidden by the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts to operate the art trade. Half a year later, the final prohibition of the entire trade took place.
.In order to secure the existence of his family, Otto worked from 1937 in the wine wholesale winery S. Neugarten in Mainz as a commission traveler. However, his legitimation card for this was revoked in 1938. The reason given for this was that the issuance of the legitimation card had not been legal due to false information provided by the S. Neugarten company. Likewise, on April 14, 1938, the final forced expropriation of the book and art shop S.L. Landsberg to the "Aryan" bookseller Rudolf Ebel took place.
unbekannt
Essex
CM11NG
United Kingdom
Before Otto Landsberg was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on December 06, 1938, he was in "protective custody" in the Oldenburg court prison from November 10, 1938.
On December 01, 1938, the children Ursula and Hans emigrated without their parents to Essex, a county of England. Otto Landsberg was also able to emigrate to Essex with his wife Martha on August 24, 1939.
After World War II, Hans Landsberg moved to New Jersey in the United States in 1945 under the name "John."
At the age of 78, Otto Landsberg died in London on June 23, 1969.
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