Mandel family - Königstraße 64

In memory of members of the Mandel family

Leo Juda Arie Mandel (*07.06.1906 Halle) and Bertha Bela, née Alt (*27.7.1910 Ukraine) lived here with their son  Jakob „Jackie“ (1.5.1935 Fürth). Leo was the managing director of the grain and animal feed wholesaler Lippmann & Sohn GmbH. In 1938, he and his brother Jean took over their parents' rag-picking business.

The Mandels were originally from Poland and still had Polish citizenship. They were therefore deported to Poland on June 9, 1939 during the so-called Polenaktion. In Poland, they were deported to the Lemberg-Janowska concentration camp and shot in 1943. Bertha was heavily pregnant. Leo had previously been infected with the typhus pathogen for medical experiments.

Leo's sister Gustl Esther (*7.7.1898 Poland-1945) and her husband Isi Bergmann were deported from Frankfurt am Main to the Minsk ghetto on 11.11.1941 and to Auschwitz on 9.9.1942 and murdered.