Toy and metal goods factory - Georg Levy

Before Georg Levy founded his own company in 1920 (trademarks "GL" and "Gely", - composed of the first letters of his name), he was a partner in the company of Hubert Kienberger (trademark  "Huki"). The owners of the company were Alfred and Kurt Levy and Peter Moritz Goldschmidt. The owner of the house, engineer Georg Levy, lived at Frommanstrasse 8. The range of goods included a large assortment of tin toys such as cars, motorcycles, airplanes, ships, tin figures of various kinds as well as tin trains. The Nazi takeover in 1933 and the resulting measures against the Jewish population caused Georg Levy to sell his company and emigrate with his family to England. Following an order by the National Socialist authorities in March 1934 to set up a school at Obere Kanalstrasse 25, the Jewish religious community in Nuremberg bought the former toy factory and, after considerable renovation, opened its elementary and vocational school there on September 13, 1934. Together with the Jewish secondary school in Fürth, these institutions ensured the basic schooling of the Israelite youth in the Nuremberg region. Young people in the Nuremberg region. Year after year, Obere Kanalstraße 25 became more and more the focal point and center of Jewish life in Nuremberg. After the synagogues were all destroyed in the Reichspogromnacht, services were now held in the school gymnasium. With the deportation to Riga on 29.11.1941, the school was also deprived of its last pupils. The Jewish community administration had to move into the empty rooms. The life of the Jewish community expired in June 1943, when the Gestapo confiscated the remaining assets of all remaining Jewish institutions in the Reich and deported their representatives to the concentration camps