Oskar Salomon shoe store

Oskar Salomon took over his late father's outerwear and shoe business at Poststra<e 4 / Großer Plan in 1907. In the years that followed, he specialized in shoes and moved his business, the "Schuhhaus Salomon", to Zöllnerstraße 35 in 1914 and then to Poststraße 7 in April 1929.

His shoe shops were not exempt from the riots during the pogrom night of November 9-10, 1938. The shop windows were smashed and the goods dispersed on the street. The private residence, which was not in the immediate vicinity of the shop, was not affected. On the morning of November 10, 1938, Oskar Salomon and his son Hans, like almost all male Jews in Celle, were arrested and eventually sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He returned to Celle in December 1938, his health badly affected by the abuse he suffered in prison. Upon his release, he was ordered to leave the country. Oskar Salomon gave up the business premises in Poststra<e and sold the old business premises at Zöllnerstra<e 35 in 1939 in order to finance the „Judenvermögensabgabe“ and the „Reichsfluchtsteuer“ as well as to pay the damages incurred during the November pogroms. At the same time, he planned to leave Germany with his wife Nancy. But this did not happen. Both were forcibly housed in the so-called ‚Celler Judenhaus‘ Im Kreise 24 and lived there under adverse conditions until July 10, 1942, when they were deported to the Ausschwitz concentration camp and murdered there in the same month.