Women's Aid Society of the Jewish Community
On Kunnerwitzer Stra;e, at the house number 17 will be laid at the end of the year another Stolpersteine.
In memory of Amanda Hannes (1861-1942). Amanda was the chairwoman of the women's auxiliary club of the jüdische Gemeinde. She had to leave her apartment and spent with other remaining Görlitzer Jews in the "Judenhaus" on Jakobstra;e until the deportation to Tormersdorf.
Amanda was the chairwoman of the Women's Aid Society of the Jewish community, and her letters show us that this charity extended not only to Jewish women in Görlitz, but throughout Silesia.
Villa Family Alexander-Katz
The villa of the Alexander-Katz family next to the Ständehaus was destroyed by bombs in 1945.
Villa Siegfried Kaufmann
Law Office Dr. Paul Mühsam
Paul Mühsam, jurist, writer * 1876, 17.07. Brandenburg † 1960, 11.03. Jerusalem
The well-known Jüdian jurist Paul Mühsam who daily crossed Postplatz on his way to work, noted his experiences about Görlitz under the National Socialists in his memoirs under the title „I have been a man“. In Görlitz, a street has been named after Paul Mühsam since 1990.
Spinning - Weaving - Bach & Bloch
The spinning and weaving Bach & Bloch was founded in Mülhausen (Mulhouse) in Alsace. Helmuth Bloch (born 1893 in Mülhausen) was one of the owners of the textile wholesale " Bach & Bloch ". After the 1st World War, the company was reopened in Augsburg by the sons of the company founders. Other partners were Edmund and Ralph Bach.Helmuth Bloch lived with his family in Augsburg in the Frölichstra;e 14. 1936 Helmuth Bloch emigrated with his family to the USA.
.Cap factory - M.Mertés - owner Max Hecht
Hertha Fackenheim (née Oppenheim)
Hertha Fackenheim was born in Kassel on April 1, 1896. She grew up as the daughter of the factory owner Hermann Oppenheim and his wife Rieka in Kassel.
In 1920 she married Alfred Fackenheim. And moved with him to Eisenach. There their daughter Erika was born in 1923.
When the living conditions for the Jewish population in Germany became increasingly difficult, the Fackenheims sent their daughter to Palestine. They wanted to follow her later, but the outbreak of the war prevented their emigration.
Alfred Fackenheim
Alfred Fackenheim was born on November 9, 1891 in Eisenach. His father was Julius Fackenheim.
Alfred went to school in Eisenach and then learned the profession of a banker. In the First World War he volunteered for military service.
After the end of the war, he opened a private bank in the väterlichen house, the „Heim-Bank“. This went however in the time of the world economic crisis 1929 into bankruptcy.
Alfred married in the year 1920 Hertha Oppenheim.