Bernhardstraße 39
Sachsen
01187 Dresden
Germany
Richard Steinhart was born in Merseburg on May 26, 1873. His wife Bertha, née Auerbach, was born on September 1, 1875 in the former German district of Tachau. Richard Steinhart was a merchant and successful owner of the Steinhart department store at Kesselsdorfer Straße 17 in Löbtau, which advertised as follows until 1933: „The efficient shopping center for household and kitchen appliances, leather goods, gift articles, toys, linoleum, men's articles, stockings, handicrafts and jerseys“. The couple had three children: Kurt, Werner and Emilie. After their father retired, the department store was taken over by his sons Kurt and Werner.
In 1938, the family was forced to sell the department store at a very low price. Emilie Steinhart and her two children were able to flee to the USA via England. Werner Steinhart and his newly married wife Marga Goldblum were able to flee to Holland in 1938 and from there reached the USA in 1939. On November 5, 1939, they were the last couple to be married in the Dresden synagogue before it was destroyed just a few days later. The sons Ronald and Richard Steinhart were born in the USA. Their parents Richard and Bertha Steinhart already had a visa for Panama, but in the end they decided in favor of a Jewish retirement home in Berlin. From there, they were both deported to Theresienstadt, where Richard Steinhart was murdered on July 15, 1943 at the age of 68. Bertha Steinhart was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 18, 1944 and murdered there.
From: https://stolpersteine-guide.de/map/biografie/1220/familie-steinhart


Later owners of the house were the business couple Krautwald




Kurt Steinhart was born in Dresden on December 29, 1903. He was the owner of the Steinhart department store on Kesselsdorfer Straße, which he was forced to sell. He was married to Sonja Steinhart; the couple had two children. He was deported to Buchenwald in 1938. He was released on condition that he leave Germany. He was active in the Resistance in Paris and was arrested, deported and murdered in Auschwitz in 1942.


Marion Steinhart was born in Dresden on July 26, 1931. Her parents were Kurt and Sonja Steinhart. She had to move with her brother and mother to the "Jews' house" on Strehlener Straße and was deported with them to the "Hellerberg Jews' camp" in 1942 and a year later to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was murdered.

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