Clothing fabrics wholesale - Brenner & Nathan

Carl Callmann Brenner was born on January 28, 1870 in Schwetz on the Vistula (Świecie) in Poland. He was married to Paula Nothmann from Neisse. The couple had one son - Walter. From 1911, the family lived as tenants at Thomasiusstra<e 15. From 1903, the trained merchant Carl Brenner ran the clothing fabric wholesale business " Brenner & Nathan " with a business partner in the Nikolai quarter at Poststra<e 28. The company employed around 20 people. In the course of the so-called " Aryanization "  the company was forced to sell in 1937. Walter Brenner emigrated to the USA in the same year. Efforts by his parents to follow their son to the USA failed several times. On September 9, 1942, the Brenners were deported to Theresienstadt on the so-called 60th transport of the elderly, where Carl Brenner died a few weeks later. His wife Paula survived two years in the camp until she was taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp on July 15, 1944, where she was murdered. The fate of the Brenner family is commemorated by stumbling stones in Berlin at Thomasiusstraße 15.