Fanger department store and Hava department store

The building was erected around 1898 on behalf of Benjamin Fanger (1860-1930) as a department store, business and residential building. After his death, his wife Fieda and later his daughter Selma Lotte and her husband Moritz Auerbach continued to run the Fanger department store. Later, the Hava, the house of many articles, managed by Max Brecher and Max Rosenbaum, was located here.

National Socialist decrees from 1938 deprived Jewish business people of their livelihood. Their businesses were closed or aryanized. The Fanger department store also fell victim to this policy. It was taken over by Gustav Caspar, while the employees remained in the dark about the background. In 1941, the Fanger family was dispossessed. They had to move into a so-called Jewish house at Bautzner Strasse 20. Daughter Selma and her husband Moritz were conscripted to forced labor in the Goehle factory and deported to Auschwitz in 1943, where they were murdered. Mother Frieda was deported to Theresienstadt in the same year and murdered there. The second daughter, Elsa, was able to flee to Australia with her family.