Textile manufacturer - Carl Lewin

The following entries can be found in the address book of the city of Breslau from 1918: Lewin Caßriel, Großkaufmann, XVIII, Hohenzollernstr. 119,121 I., (Tel. 3170) s. C. Lewin. - Lewin Leo, wholesale merchant, purveyor to the court of his Serene Highness the Prince of Lippe-Detmold, XVIII, Akazienallee 12, (Tel 4-50) s. C. Lewin. - C. Lewin, owner Caßriel u. Leo Lewin, the latter purveyor to the court of his Serene Highness the Prince of Lippe-Detmold and Prince Georg von Anhalt, fur factory founded in 1870, Gartenstraße 7 II.  -  Caßriel Lewin was born in Posen in 1856. He was married to Machel Mathilde, née Holländer. The couple had five children - Salo, born on June 1, 1880 in Breslau, - Leo, born on October 19, 1881 in Breslau, - Georg, about 1890, -  Klara Cäcilia, married Markus, born on June 2, 1888 in Breslau - murdered on October 4, 1944 in Auschwitz and Johanna Hanna, married name Schlamm, born on April 21, 1893 in Breslau - died on January 1, 1943 (suicide). - Caßriel (Carl) Lewin died on January 22, 1924 in Berlin. He found his final resting place in the New Jewish Cemetery in Breslau-Cosel. Carl Lewin was a great art collector and his Leo Lewin also began to build up his own art collection shortly after World War I. Even before the beginning of Nazi rule, Leo Lewin and his textile company had become the target of anti-Semitic hostility. After 1933, Leo Lewin was subjected to National Socialist persecution, which took a considerable toll on his health and led to the gradual loss of his assets. A large part of his art collection was auctioned off in Berlin in 1927. After the expropriation of his company in April 1938, Leo Lewin and his wife Helene, née Koslowsky, emigrated to Bishop Auckland in Great Britain via South Hampton in January 1939.