Banking and product business - Eduard Mamroth

Complete profile
90

The Allgemeine Wohnungs-Anzeiger nebst Adreß- und Geschäftshandbuch für Berlin, dessen Umgebungen und Charlottenburg - Ausgabe 1868 contains the following entry: Mamroth Eduard, Bank. und Producten-Geschäft, Jägerstraße 27.  - Eduard Mamroth was born on December 3, 1820 in Poznan ( Posen ). He was married to Emma Pringsheim, born around 1825 in Poznan (Posen). The couple had seven children. -  Albert, 1847-1911, - Hugo, 1847-1905, - Toni, 1859-??, Ulla Ulrike, 1859-1905, - Therese, 1863-1942, - Robert, 1864-1927, - Rosa, 1878-1929.

Ruth Frischmannova stumbling block

Complete profile
100

On September 13, 1944, a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp was set up in Neugraben on Falkenbergsweg/Neugrabener Heideweg. The camp was home to 500 women, most of whom came from Czechoslovakia. They had been deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp via Theresienstadt. There the SS selected them for work in Hamburg. Their first station in Hamburg was the Dessauer Ufer satellite camp in the free port.

Margarete Gumpel

Complete profile
90

Margarete "Grete" Gumpel was born on February 18, 1892. Her parents were Julius Gumpel, born on December 8, 1852 in Bernburg, and Auguste "Gustchen" Gumpel, née Glogowski, born on January 17, 1854 in Jarocin, Poland. Margarete Gumpel had five siblings - Bruno Gumpel, born on September 19, 1881 -  died in 1918 - Gertrud (Udchen) S., married name Reyersbach, born on November 14, 1882 in Berlin - died on April 14, 1942 in Weißenfels (committed suicide before the imminent deportation together with her  husband Siegfried Reyersbach).

Editorial Office of the weekly newspaper Neue Welt

Complete profile
70

Ernest Landau, a Viennese journalist liberated from one of the Death Marches near Tutzing on Lake Starnberg, founded what was then the only German-language Jewish weekly newspaper, the “Neue Welt. Eine Wochenschrift der befreiten Juden” (New World: A Weekly of the Liberated Jews) in fall 1947. With a circulation of around 4,000, the paper was aimed to be a news and information bulletin for Jewish communities in Bavaria. After just one year, the Neue Welt had to cease publication due to a lack of a German readership.

Kosher Kitchen

Complete profile
70

In April 1946, the Jewish Committee Munich opened the first kosher kitchen in the city in Victor-Scheffel-Strasse. As up to 8,000 Jews were living in Munich, what it could produce was not enough by any means. Additional kitchens were opened so that, at times, five such canteens existed in the municipal area: in Möhlstrasse, Frauenstrasse, and Zweibrückenstrasse, as well as in Hauptstrasse, as it was then called, in the suburb of Feldmoching.

Agudas Yisroel

Complete profile
70

The approach taken by the strictly Orthodox association Agudas Yisroel (also Agudat Yisrael, “Union of Israel”), founded in Poland in 1912, was that it would not be the political movement of Zionism that would lead the “Jewish people to salvation,” but only the strict observance of the commandments in the Torah. After the Shoah, the organization relativized this position and participated in building up the Jewish national community, while strongly maintaining that halakhah, the Jewish religious law, should decide the affairs of the State of Israel.

Headquarters of the youth organization Hashomer Hatzair and editorial office of the newspaper Oyf der vakh

Complete profile
70

Hashomer Hatzair (Heb. the Young Guard) is a left-Zionist youth movement founded in Galicia in 1913 which significantly influenced the kibbutz movement and sent young men and women to Palestine as chaluzim (Heb. pioneers) shortly after World War II. Members of the association participated as partisans and ghetto fighters in the resistance against the Nazi regime. After 1945, Hashomer Hazair smuggled thousands of Jewish children and youths from Eastern Europe to DP camps. From fall 1947 until January 1949, the movement published the Yiddish-language newspaper Oyf der vakh (Yid.

Editorial office of the newspaper Nizoz

Complete profile
70

The newspaper Nizoz (Heb. the Spark) was an underground newspaper founded in Kaunas (Lithuania) by the Zionist youth organization Brit Zion (Heb. Zions’ Covenant). After the liquidation of the ghetto, the protagonists were deported to Kaufering concentration camp where they produced another seven issues under life-endangering conditions before the camp was liberated. After the Shoah, the newspaper was then able to be puhlished as a legal Hebrew newspaper in Munich from July 1945 until April 1948.

Central Committee of the Liberated Jews

Complete profile
70

The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the American Zone revealed the high degree of self-organization among the Sh’erit ha-Pletah between 1945 and 1950. The newly created committee set up its office in Munich, first in the Deutsches Museum, then in Siebertstrasse. Its aim was to draw public attention to the distress plight of Jewish survivors in DP camps in order to put pressure on Britain to allow the immigration of DPs into Palestine.

The Central Committee of Liberated Jews’ Tracing Service

Complete profile
70

The American army rabbi Abraham Klausner (1915–2007) arrived at Dachau concentration camp in May 1945 shortly after it had been liberated and began to work for the interests of Jewish former concentration camp prisoners. By as early as June 21, 1945, he had compiled the first printed search lists with the heading Sh'erit ha-Pletah (The Surviving Remnant) which were then published by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria. They included the names of several thousand survivors.