Residential and commercial building 'Manufaktur- und Modewarengeschäft Heyn'

The Heyn family ( Hein Levi) had been resident in Bremervürde since 1753.

In May 1936, the Jewish merchant Siegfried Heyn was forced to sell his home and business premises. Siegfried Heyn moved with his wife to Hamburg in 1937 and then to Bremen in 1938, where he was arrested in the early hours of November 10 and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was released as he was able to prove that he was able to emigrate.

Günther Heyn, Siegfried Heyn's 29-year-old son and 22-year-old daughter Ilse Heyn emigrated to the United States of America as early as 1938.

In April 1940, Siegfried Heyn and his wife Alice fled to the USA via Genoa with the help of their children.

Heyn died in New York in 1945 at the age of 63; his wife died three years later.

Frieda Heyn, Siegfried Heyn's sister, chose suicide in Hamburg on August 12, 1938 as a victim of National Socialist persecution.