Kosher butcher Albert Stern

After the Shoah, the few surviving men and women from the Theresienstadt camp were quartered in various emergency shelters in Frankfurt; these included the retirement home at Sandweg 7 in eastern Nordend and the former, badly damaged hospital of the Israelite community at Gagernstraße 36 in Ostend, as well as the former Israelite elementary school at Röderbergweg 29. In addition to the strict rationing of food, the observance of kashrut, the dietary laws, made things even more difficult for Jews. "The first kosher butcher's shop ... was also in Theobald-Christ-Straße. It was run by two brothers who came from the surrounding area. Later, another one was opened in Sandweg on the corner of Königswarterstraße." (Eleonore de Jong). The latter was the Albert Stern butcher's shop, which produced meat and sausage products as well as poultry products and sold them four days a week. Joseph Klibansky, legal advisor to the State Association of Jewish Communities in Hesse, wrote about the store in 1955: "The location of the new premises is excellent. It is less than a minute from the Baumweg synagogue and in the middle of the current residential area of the Jewish population in Frankfurt. ... I am also of the opinion that it is one of the most important tasks of a Jewish community to create the conditions for the existence of a kosher butcher's shop". The surviving master craftsman's certificate for the butcher Albert Stern dates from 1927.