Münster City Museum

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The Münster City Museum shows 1200 years of the city's history on 2,500 square meters. It goes without saying that the museum's exhibition collection also presents the Jewish citizens at the points where we have evidence of their lives in the city of Münster.

Delicatessen and factory - Samuel Breslauer

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The Berlin address book - 1876 edition contains the following entries: Samuel Breslaer, Fein-Fleischwaarenhandlung- und Fabrik, Klosterstr. 91, Pt. u. I. E., Inh. Samuel Breslauer 

- Lachmann D., Reindeer, Hohenzollernstr. 3.

Text of the back page - Berlin, Nov. 2, 76  -  Be so kind as to send us 2 1/2 pounds of beef tomorrow Friday afternoon  - D. Lachmann, Hohenzollernstr. 3

Villa Quarch - today Villa Arite

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The villa was built and used around 1850 by the Jewish furrier Edmund Wilhelm Quarch (Rauchwarenzurichterei und Färberei Rödiger & Quarch GmbH- Leipzig). Rauchwarenzurichterei und Färberei Rödiger & Quarch was founded in 1843 and taken over by the company Thorer & Co. at the beginning of the First World War.

Goldschmidt House

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The Goldschmidt House was built in 1538 in the old town of Warburg. It is located near the former synagogue of the Jewish community of Warburg.

The house was founded by the Asshoeer family and was owned by them until 1722. 

Old cemetery in Johannistal

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The Old Jewish Cemetery in Johannistal was established in 1814 on the initiative of Jewish trade fair visitors from Brody in Galicia. It was the first Jewish cemetery in Leipzig. Burials took place on the site until 1864. From 1864, the newly built cemetery in Berliner Straße was used. After the National Socialists seized power, the lease on the cemetery land was terminated by the Jewish community of Leipzig and the site was cleared in 1937. In total, around 385 people were buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Johannistal.

Jacob Schapiro - Villa 'Gabi Nora' / today Villa Capravi

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Jacob Schapiro – Villa ‚Gabi Nora‘

Jacob Schapiro (b. November 6 1885 in Odessa; d. April 17 1942 in New York) was a Jewish car dealer, cab entrepreneur and stock speculator in Berlin. For a time, he was the largest car dealer in Germany.

The villa on the beach promenade was built around 1910 in the colonial style of German West Africa. The villa bore the name of his daughter ‚Gabi Nora‘ until 1936.

Jacob Schapiro was forced to sell the villa due to Nazi reprisals.