Hildegard von Gierke

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Hildegard von Gierke was born in Breslau on September 30, 1880. Her parents were cosmopolitan and Protestant, her father was a well-known legal scholar and her mother came from a Jewish publishing family.

Department store - Elias Kahn Söhne

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The following entry can be found in the Munich address book for the year 1890: Kahn Elias Söhne,Manufakturwaarengeschäft,Bayerstraße 43, Filiale Karlstraße 49.In the address book from the year 1900 the following entry: Kahn Elias Söhne Manufakturwaren-,Damenkonfektion u. Schuhwaaren-Geschäft,Bayerstr.43 (T), branch Karlstr.49 (T), Blumenstr.2 (T), Zweibrückenstr.1 (T). Kahn Jonas, (Elias Kahn Söhne) merchant Rückertstr.6or(T). Kahn Leopold (Elias Kahn Söhne) merchant Heustr.15a. In the 1910 address book - Kahn Albert Kaufmann. (Company Elias Kahn Söhne) Paul Heysestrr28/2 I.

Specialist for gynecological diseases - Dr. Hans Bab

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The Berlin address book - 1909 edition contains the following entry: Bab, Hans, Dr. med., gynecologist, former assistant at the women's clinic of the Charité, Charlottenburg, Knesebeckstr.72.73 pt. - The address book of the city of Munich in 1938 contains the following entry: Bad Hans, Dr. Facharzt für Frauenkrankheiten, Leopoldstra<e 42: - 3 -- 7 1/2, Mon. and Fri. 3 -- 8, ( mornings by appointment ).   -   In 1938 Dr. Hans Bab was taken into so-called " protective custody " for 12 weeks on charges of racial defilement. According to the Stürmer ", Dr.

Fashion house - Michael Goldstein

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Michael Goldstein was born on January 1, 1850 in Bad Kissingen. He married Albertine Goldstein, née Bass, born on January 29, 1862 in Fürth, on May 13, 1884 in Munich. The couple had two children - Else, born on October 19, 1886 in Bad Kissingen and Otto, born on July 19, 1889 in Bad Kissingen. Michael Goldstein ran a respected ready-to-wear clothing business in Bad Kissingen and bore the title "Royal Bavarian Purveyor to the Court".

Dr. Hilde Lion

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Hilde Lion was born on May 14, 1893 as the third of four children into a wealthy Jewish merchant family in Hamburg. At that time, women were not allowed to take A-levels or study. Lion initially trained as a teacher. Her work as a teacher sensitized her to the plight of working-class children.

Residence Dr. Willy Katz

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Dr. Willy Katz was the only Jewish doctor licensed to provide medical care for Dresden Jews from 1939 to 1945. He was therefore allowed to keep his practice and apartment at Borsbergstrasse 14, and continued to practice after 1945.
Dr. Katz is mentioned several times in Victor Klemperer's diaries "I will bear witness to the last".

Victor Klemperer's house

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Home of Victor Klemperer, academic at the TU Dresden and later a member of the Kulturbund radio station. Known for his book "LTI, die Sprache der Dritten Reiches", and his diaries "Ich werde Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzen" and "Das kleinere Uebel"

The house was built in 1934. Victor Klemperer and his wife were forced to move out in 1940 and were able to return in the summer of 1945.

Law firm - Hugo Rothschild

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The address book for Munich from 1905 contains the following entry: Rothschild II Hugo, Rechtsanwalt  Kanzlei und Wohnung Schützenstraße 2/1. - Hugo Rothschild was born in Munich on February 15, 1875. His parents were Gustav Rothschild, a Jewish private teacher born in Goßmannsdorf in 1848, and Bertha Rothschild, née Fleischmann. Gustav Rothschild died at the young age of 27 - Hugo Rothschild was two months old at the time. Hugo Rothschild spent his childhood in Baiersdorf and attended the Fridericianum, a humanistic grammar school in Erlangen, after elementary school.

Goldfisch, Alfred

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Alfred Goldfisch was born in Stuttgart on June 2, 1874. His parents were the Ulm textile merchant Hermann Goldfisch and his wife Johanna, née Wartenberg. Alfred Goldfisch was an authorized signatory of the Aufhäuser-Bank in Munich. On November 6, 1905, Alfred Goldfisch married Frieda Heumann, who was born in Laupheim on October 19, 1879. On June 1, 1918, the couple moved from Wiesbaden to Munich. On April 27, 1938, Alfred Goldfisch was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison in a trial on suspicion of racial defilement.