City walk Frankfurt am Main: Places of remembrance in Ostend

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Jewish life in Frankfurt's Ostend district was systematically destroyed between 1933 and 1945. The city administration and mostly the Secret State Police disenfranchised, persecuted and deported the Jews living in the district; most of them were murdered in the Shoah. And yet, immediately after the liberation of Frankfurt in spring 1945, Jewish life in Ostend made a cautious, albeit fragile, new start.

Perfumery and toilet articles - Dr. M. Albersheim

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The address book of the city of Frankfurt am Main from 1922 contains the following entries: Dr. M. Albersheim, founded in 1892, factory of fine perfumes and cosmetic products, Lützowstr. 15-17, (Tel. Hansa 561 and Hansa 1689 shipping department)  Owner: Walter Carsch and Fritz Albersheim. - Dr. M. Albersheim, specialty store for fine toilet articles, store Kaiser-Str.9. Erdg. (Hansa 2561) - Moritz (Moises) Albersheim was born on June 18, 1854 in Nottuln, district of Coesfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Jewish cemetery Tonndorf / Jenfelder Straße

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The community in Wandsbek, which had existed since the 17th century, buried its dead in the old K nigsreihe cemetery. After this was completely full, a new site was purchased in Jenfelder Stra e e (formerly Jenfelder Weg) and a cemetery was established there, initially for 388 graves. It was opened in the summer of 1877. In the same year, a mortuary, a Kohanim hall and an apartment for the cemetery caretaker were also built. The total area would have allowed an expansion to 1000 plots. Between 1887 and 1942, 143 bodies were buried in the cemetery.

Manufactured goods store - Textile house - S. Frank Nachf. - Daniel Oppenheim

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The company " Gebr. Goldschmidt "  (the owners Salomon and Josef Goldschmidt imported domestic and foreign textiles from factory production and exported domestic canvas on a large scale)  was divided in 1841. In 1851 Samuel Frank took over the trading business of Salomon Goldschmidt. Towards the end of the 19th century, the Frank brothers' textile company employed numerous homeworkers in Rahden. This later became the textile company " Daniel Oppenheim & Sohn " on Rahdener Kirchplatz. - Daniel Oppenheim and his wife were very active in the Jewish community.

Department store - Wholesale - Adolph Trier & Goldschmidt

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Adolph Meyer Trier was born in Copenhagen on September 24, 1817. His parents were the banker and merchant Meyer Seligmann Salomon Trier, born in Copenhagen on August 29, 1770, and Esther Trier, née Lazarus, also born in Copenhagen in July 1780. Adolph Meyer Trier had ten other siblings. His sister Rose (1802–1890), who was 15 years older, was married to the silk and textile merchant Bendix Meyer Goldschmidt (1791–1874).

Emanuel Mandel

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The Chemnitz address book from 1939 contains the following entry: Mandel Emanuel, Dipl.-Ing.,Weststr.5 I. - The Viennese engineer Emanuel Mandel had been married to Anni Oppenheimer, daughter of Hugo Max and Betty Oppenheim, since 1930. Her father Hugo Max Oppenheimer had already died in 1921. Her brother Fritz Oppenheimer (company commander and lieutenant in the reserve) was killed by gunfire in a battle near the village of Hollebeke (Belgium) on September 19, 1918 during the First World War. After the death of their father, their brother Dr.

Fritz Ascher

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Ascher GmbH, founded by his father in 1904, is successful. He buys a 3,000 square meter plot of land in Zehlendorf's Niklasstraße and commissions the prominent architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg to build a prestigious villa. In 1909, the family moved into the property, which was one of the first in the newly developing residential area. Fritz Ascher is 16 years old and begins his studies at the Königsberg Academy of Art. After completing his studies, he returns to Berlin and sets up a studio in his parents' villa.

Alios Eckstein and family - Central department store

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In 1907, Alois Eckstein, born in 1883 near Marienbad, acquired an old building in a corner location in Potschappel to open his own department store. Eckstein had previously worked as an employee in Dresden. His store opened on September 27, 1907 and offered a wide range of goods. As there were previously only a few large shopping opportunities for the growing population of the Düren basin, Eckstein quickly generated large profits, so that he had a more representative and larger building erected from June 1913.