Textile store

Hermann Gerson, who had a textile store in the building Kirchberg 8. He, too, was non-Jewish by marriage. His two children Ruth and Alexander had already emigrated to Palestine in 1930. In 1938, Hermann Gerson's business was forcibly "Aryanized". Hermann Gerson and his wife Julie became homeless. They found shelter with the non-Jewish Heß family. In 1944 Hermann Gerson was denounced and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp.