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In the years 1871/2 the "Villa Joachim" is built for the Jewish violinist, composer, conductor and music professor Joseph Georg Maria Joachim (1831-1907) and his family at the address Beethovenstraße 3/In den Zelten 10, north of the Berlin Tiergarten.
Nearly ten years later, the adjacent building with the house number In den Zelten 9a was built in 1880.
Klara Caro
Klara Caro (née Beermann) was born in Berlin on January 6, 1886. Her older brother Max cared for her education and shaped her liberal, Zionist views. In 1909, she married Dr. Isidor Caro, a rabbi and preacher, and moved with him to Cologne. As a social worker, she provided pastoral care for Jewish inmates at Klingelpütz and patients at the psychiatric ward of Lindenburg Hospital.
Agrippina House
The Agrippinahaus was one of the most important commercial and office buildings of its time and, in addition to stores and the Agrippina-Lichtspiele, also housed important political organizations of Jews in the German Reich. Among others, the "Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens" (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) and the "Zionistische Vereinigung" (Zionist Association), which represented different positions and had a conflictual relationship with each other, moved into the building.
Olga Stern House
Isidor Stern realized his late wife Olga's idea of a comfortable and enjoyable home for people from the middle class. In memory of Olga, the Olga Stern House was established in the spring of 1930 as a home for the elderly for Jewish people over 60 years of age. The house was located in a beautiful setting and had generously furnished rooms. There was a music room with a piano and a large garden. There the residents came together for common meetings. Through the proximity to nature and through intellectually stimulating activities, e.g.
Dr. Isidor Caro
Isidor Caro was born on 6.10.1876 in Znin, Posen. He studied in Berlin and Giessen. He completed his rabbinical seminary at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (HWJ) in Berlin. After completing his doctorate in Giessen, he moved to Cologne in 1909 . There he worked for over 20 years as a liberal rabbi, preacher and religion teacher at the Kreuzgasse Gymnasium. In addition, Isidor Caro was active as a pastor for Jewish soldiers in World War I and for prisoners in Cologne and the surrounding area.
Trude Joan Schiff
Trude Joan Schiff was a German physician who lost her position as a volunteer assistant at the University Hospital in Frankfurt am Main in 1933. From 1933 to 1938, she worked at the "Asylum for the Sick and the Aged", a Jewish hospital in Cologne. There she worked as one of a total of 17 "Krankenbehandler*innen" who were still licensed to care for Jewish patients in Cologne and the surrounding area. Due to the increasing repressive measures of the National Socialist regime, she emigrated with her husband John (Hans) D. Schiff to London in 1939.
Oppenheim family
The von Oppenheim family is a well-known banking family from Cologne. They have distinguished themselves by their commitment to the emancipation of Jews in the Rhineland and Prussia. Furthermore, they made significant donations to the city of Cologne, including the construction of the synagogue in the Glockengasse, donations to the Cologne Cathedral and commitment to the infrastructure of the city of Cologne.
Berlin-Mitte
Until the end of the German Empire in 1918, the area of Berlin now known as Mitte was the capital’s central business district. It was only after the First World War and with the expansion of the city’s borders into Greater Berlin, in 1920, that a second, booming commercial center emerged in western Berlin around Tauentzienstrasse and Kurfürstendamm.