Victor Roberg manufacture and fashion goods

Since 1906, Victor Roberg (born 1884) lived in Celle, where he was initially employed at the department store Gebrüder Freidberg. After he became a representative of the company F. Machunsky (Marburg) for oils and waxes, Am Heiligen Kreuz 5, he opened a manufacturing and fashion goods shop at Markt 17 in 1919; at the same time he ran an itinerant business. In 1929, Roberg moved to a larger shop at Zöllnerstraße 35. Around 1935, the business premises were closed and the textile trade moved to the family home at Fritzenwiese 48D.

Victor Roberg had been married to Frieda Marx (born 1894) since 1921. The two sons - Hans-Werner (born 1921) and Kurt-W. (born 1924) - attended the Hermann Billung School after their primary school years at the Altstädt School, where they were the only Jewish pupils in 1934. Hans-Werner Roberg emigrated to the Netherlands in 1936.

On the morning after the pogrom night of November 9, 1938, Victor Roberg and the other Jewish men were arrested in Celle and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Kurt-W. Roberg only escaped arrest because he had gone to school as usual that day. After Victor Roberg was released from prison on December 16, 1938, his parents immediately decided to send their younger son to his relatives in Rotterdam.

Frieda Roberg had already applied to the US consulate in Hamburg in August 1938 to emigrate to the USA, but it was expected to take up to three years. The parents therefore initially traveled to the Netherlands in March 1939. At the beginning of 1940, they were able to enter the USA with their older son. The younger son was supposed to finish the education he had started in the Netherlands. After the invasion of the German troops, he left the Netherlands in January 1941 on a Kindertransport.

From: http://www.celle-im-ns.de/orte/victor-roberg-manufaktur-und-modewaren