Otto Schwabe

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Otto Schwabe (born on October 2 1894 in Hanau; died on September 22 1937 ibid) was a German Jüdian physician well known in the city of Hanau, who met his death under unexplained circumstances after being arrested by the Gestapo . Schwabe came from a Jewish family long established in Hanau, whose origin was the house first mentioned in 1689 Zum Schwaben in Hanauer Judengasse (today Nordstraße).

B. Rubinstein

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According to the Ravenstein plan of 1861, the house Klostergasse 59 was located exactly opposite  the exit of the street " Am Judenbrückchen ". In 1937, during the redevelopment of Frankfurt's Old Town, the houses in the northern part of Klostergasse were demolished. In 1944, during an air raid in 1944, the area around the Klostergasse was völlig destroyed.

Friedrich "Fritz" Canthal

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Friedrich Canthal (* April 1848 in Hanau; † November 1922) was entrepreneur and local politician in Hanau.

Friedrich („Fritz“) Canthal was born in Hanauer Judengasse as the son of a brandy and liquor manufacturer. In 1863, after the death of his father, he took over the company and developed it into one of the leading companies in the industry in Südwest Germany. From 1876 he was a member of the Hanau Chamber of Commerce, whose president he was between 1891 and 1918.

Erdmannsdorf makes

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Hausvogteiplatz was considered the center of Berlin's fashion world in the 1920s. Erdmannsdorfer Büstenfabrikate GmbH was first mentioned in the Berlin address books in 1911. The company moved several times around Hausvogteiplatz until 1938. However, for the longest time it was located at Seydelstraße 8/9. The founder of the company was Adolf Samson, under whose management mannequins were manufactured. The Büro and exhibition rooms were located in Berlin, while production took place in the Upper Silesian town of Erdmannsdorf (today: Mysłakowice in Poland).

Theater in the Kommandantenstraße

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With the construction of the new theater at Kommandantenstr. 57 in 1906, comedians and actors Anton and Donat (née David) Herrnfeld realized their ideas of their own theater. Donat wrote the plays on bourgeois themes of morality and honor in Jewish families. The success of the theater was also due to its family character. This existed in the interaction with the audience, but also in the operational structure. The wives sat at the box office, sisters and children also played on the stage, the mother cooked in the theater kitchen.