Saulmann - Department store with cloth, manufactured and fashion goods

Saulmann - Kaufhaus für Textilien und Mode

Erich Saulmann was born on January 14, 1899 in Heringsdorf. He was married to Elisabeth Saulmann, née Reihs (* February 25, 1906 in Teplitz-Sch nau) and had three children with her (Ilse Rose Saulmann, * May 29, 1928 - Hilde Ruth Saulmann, * August 2, 1930 - Eva-Karla Saulmann, * March 6, 1936).

Erich Saulmann ran a department store for textiles and fashion in Heringsdorf. Boycott and expropriation were followed by the deportation of the Saulmann family on February 12, 1940 

They only had two hours between the sale and the start of the deportation. The Saulmann family was taken to Stettin on the same day. On February 13, 1940, they were deported with over 1,100 other Pomeranian Jews from Szczecin to Lublin. The Lublin district in the Generalgouvernement had been designated by the German National Socialist regime as a „Jewish reservation“.

The unheated deportation train, consisting of discarded 4th class (standing class) carriages of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, took three and a half days to travel from Szczecin in the icy cold. Many of the deported citizens died during the transport. At Lublin station, the family was assigned to the Piaski Luterskie ghetto. None of the family survived. They were murdered in October 1941.