Department store - Julius Bormass

The department store (Warenhaus) on Mauritiusplatz was built in 1892 by Julius Bormass. His son Moritz Bormass became a partner in 1905 and later the managing director of Julius Bormass GmbH. The crisis period of the 1920s finally drove the company into bankruptcy in 1927. In the following compulsory settlement, Moritz Bormass stood surety with his private assets. On September 1, 1942, Moritz Bormass and his wife Sophie, née Ballin, were deported to Theresienstadt. The adverse conditions prevailing there so stressed the couple that Moritz Bormass died already on September 12, 1942. His wife Sophie came 5 days later, on September 17, 1942 to death.