Conitzer & Co. department store (Schönebeck)

Leo Conitzer (born July 1 1872 in Jeschewo, province of Pomerania) founded a textile department store in Schönebeck (Elbe) at Salzerstraße 15 and 17 am Bahnbrückental at the turn of the century, which subsequently traded under Conitzer & Co. name. The department store belonged to the M. Conitzer & Söhne.

Leo Conitzer was married to Else Dessauer (born on May 20, 1884 in Oschersleben a. d. Bode, Province of Saxony).

The marriage produced two sons:

Rudolf Aron Albert Adolf (born on 26 October 1908 in Sch nebeck a. Elbe) and Heinz Günther (born on 21 February 1922 in Sch nebeck a. Elbe).

During the organized Reich pogroms on the night of 9 to 10 November 1938, both of them were murdered. On the night of November 9-10, 1938, both the department store and the Conitzer family home were ransacked and destroyed, and Leo Conitzer was arrested and deported to Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was imprisoned for three months. In 1940, his family was forced to move to the so-called „Judenhaus“ Kirchstraße 2. In 1942, Leo Conitzer was arrested again, taken to Magdeburg and murdered there in the Gestapo building (StapoLSt Magdeburg), Klosterkirchhof 1, at the age of 70.

Wife Else Conitzer, née Dessauer, was murdered in July 1942. Dessauer was murdered on July 10, 1942 in the Ravensbr ck concentration camp.

Son Rudolf Aron Albert Adolf Conitzer was taken to the Minsk concentration camp and murdered there after November 1941.

Son Heinz Günther Conitzer was murdered on June 15, 1942 in the Sobibór extermination camp.