Oriental tobacco and cigarette factory "Yramos" - Julius Lewin

In 1890, Julius Lewin's father founded his first cigarette and tobacco factory in Gollub, which he joined and later took over. After his participation in the First World War, he moved it to Dresden on Freiberg Street in 1919. The background to this was the better economic prospects, but also the fact that it was foreseeable that Gollub would fall to Poland under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.From 1922, Lewin called the company Oriental Tobacco and Cigarette Factory „Yramos“ Julius Lewin, his son Hermann Lewin became co-owner. This proved to be particularly valuable, as he had developed into an outstanding tobacco expert and was able to consolidate the company's position, above all with quality cigarettes. In 1932, the company moved to the former cigarette factory of Wilhelm Lande in Striesener Laubestra e 24. Julius Lewin was involved in the Orthodox religious commission in the Jewish community.Hermann and Julius Lewin tried to continue the company despite the boycott after the National Socialist seizure of power. Between 1936 and 1937, however, sales fell from 88 million to 42 million. At the end of 1937, he agreed with his son to sell the company, which employed many Jews, following a Gestapo raid.nnbsp;In March 1938, the Reemtsma Group bought the company, with the purchase price confiscated by the Nazi state. Unlike his son, who emigrated to the USA penniless, he remained in Dresden and was deported with his wife Sarah to the Theresienstadt ghetto on April 28, 1942. Sarah did not survive this, Julius Lewin Lewin was able to return to Dresden after the end of the war in June 1945. After a short stay, he followed his son to the USA, where he died in New York in 1950.

Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yramos