Doctors Wilmersdörfer & Jeruchem

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Dr. med. Albrecht Anton Wilmersdörfer, born in Bayreuth in 1899, came to Schönebeck as a young man. After the early death of his first wife Tina, he married a second time in 1930. With his second wife Anna, née Stein, and their son from his first marriage, he fled to Palastina in 1935 to escape Nazi harassment.

Dr. med. Max Jeruchem, born on 18.3.1890 in Lobsens / Posen province.

Law firm Dr. jur. Martin Happ

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Dr. Martin Happ was born on January 17, 1886 in Pleschenin the Prussian province of Posen. He studied law at the University of Erlangen. He was admitted to the bar in 1913.   He met his future wife Sophie Bach in Berlin. They married in 1915 and the couple moved back to the province of Posen in Hohensalza. Martin Happ opened his own law firm there. After the Polish Posen Uprising and the Treaty of Versailles the largest part of the province of Posen was transferred to the re-established Republic of Poland in 1919.

Shoe store Oskar Gessler

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Oskar Gessler, born on May 27, 1884, came from Liebenthal. He last lived with his wife in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. He took his own life there on November 11, 1942.

His wife Margarete Gessler, née Simon, was one year his junior and came from Oschersleben. She was deported to Auschwitz on March 2, 1943 and murdered there.

Commercial credit house for workwear and workwear - Simon Barry

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Simon Bary, born on 02. 06. 1874, came from Brody / Galicia. He was the owner of the house at 19 Elbstraβe in Schūouml;nebeck, where he ran a commercial credit house for work and professional clothing.
After the November pogroms of 1938, he fled with his family in February 1939, first to Czechoslovakia and later to France. He was arrested there and deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on September 20, 1942. On October 28, 1944, he was taken to Auschwitz and murdered there.

Conitzer & Co. department store (Schönebeck)

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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:

Linen and cotton goods factory business - Moritz Eisner

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In the address book and housing gazette of the city of Nordhausen from the year 1878 the following entries can be found: Eisner Hermann, Commis, Bahnhofstr,14, - Eisner Moritz, Fabrikant, Leinen u. Baumwollw.- Waaren - Fabrik,Firma Moritz Eisner, Bahnhofstr.14-  The address book and housing gazette of the city of Nordhausen from 1888 contains the following entries:  Eisner Adolf, manufacturer, owner of the company Moritz Eisner, weaving mill for linen, cotton and half-linen goods, Bahnhofstr. 14 - Eisner Louis, merchant, Bahnhofstr. 14 - Eisner Minna, widow, reindeer, Bahnhofstr.

Law firm Dr. Erich Hannach

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Erich Hannach, the youngest son of the entrepreneurial couple Julius and Emmy Hannach, was born on September 25, 1900 in Lissa (province of Poznan). He studied law at the universities of Breslau, Freiburg, Heidelberg and Berlin. He worked as a trainee lawyer in Magdeburg from the end of 1923 and was admitted to the bar in December 1928. His law firm was located at Breiten Weg 42. On May 5, 1933, he was banned from representing clients and in June of the same year his name was removed from the lists of licensed lawyers at the Magdeburg district and regional courts. On November 10, 1938, Dr.

Families Paul and Wally Wertheim, Julius and Emmy Hannach, Arie Leo and Ruth Henschke with son Albert Max

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The Wertheim family: Paul Wertheim, born on July 2, 1858 in Berlin, died on January 23, 1942 in Magdeburg. Paul Wertheim was a judge at Magdeburg District Court from 1905. His wife Wally Wertheim, née Priebatsch, born on January 28, 1869 in Breslau, followed her husband to Magdeburg. They lived at Hohenstaufenring 9. After the death of Paul Wertheim, she was taken to a so-called ‚Jews' house' in Magdeburg in 1942. Escape to their deaths before the imminent deportation to Theresienstadt on December 2, 1942.

Owned by Samuel Eberhardt (1870 - 1976), head of the religious council and baker

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"Until 1920, it was owned by Samuel Eberhardt, the head of the Jewish community".„This was the northern half of the so-called Schmitt estate, which „Jacob jud" had bought from Lorenz Magold for 40 guilders in 1695 (house no. 43, today Poppenlauerer Strasse 4). The site for the new synagogue was located directly behind Jacob's house.“