Marktplatz
65582 Diez
Germany
In some of the houses in the marketplace, Jewish businessmen sold the most diverse goods until 1938.
Last sold Adolf Meyer (No. 8) shoes as well as leather goods and the department store Josef Bodenheimer (No. 1 u. 3 / corner Rosenstraße) textiles. Siegmund Schaumburger (No. 7 / corner Werkes) offered men's clothing too.
The Meyer and Schaumburger families fled after the Reichspogromnacht in November 1938 to foreign countries. A witness later reported that in the Schaumburger house furnishings were damaged and plundered were found."
Josef and Lina Bodenheimer moved to Wiesbaden as early as 1935. Both perished in 1942 in the ghetto Łódź life.
The Inn Bremser (No. 4, today Restaurant Little Prague) had 1935 a cinema hall, in which after the pogrom-like actions of 20. August 1935 the expelled from their homes Jewish families and the home children were housed for one night makeshift .
The landlady had taken care of them and provided rations. In retrospect reports a survivor from Israel:
"There were rolls and tea distributed, but many tried to fall asleep. It was already after midnight. More families arrived."
Add new comment