Memorial in the house of the Seligmann family

Max returns to his wife Maria after being wounded in the First World War. The Seligmanns lived in the half-timbered house with their five children. Vegetables were grown in the front garden. There was also room for fruit trees. The house also had a workshop. After the First World War, Max no longer worked as a butcher like his father, but as a trader in used goods, until the Nazi regime forbade this. Despite being arrested on 9.11.1938 and sent to Buchenwald, he returned in December 1938. They had to go into hiding in 1944. After the war, they were able to continue living in their house until Maria Seligmann's death in 1971. One son and his wife Hilde saved themselves from the 1938 Kristallnacht by emigrating to Argentina, but returned to Germany in the 1950s. Hilde Seligmann leased her parents-in-law's house to the Rhein-Sieg district, which has maintained a memorial there since 1994 to commemorate the former Jewish life on the Sieg, the emerging agitation and the crimes of the Nazi era. The exhibition was reopened in 2024 with a new concept after many years of renovation work. Objects that were part of everyday Jewish life, interactive and analog panels invite visitors to discover.