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.
Cohn family
Hans Rosenthal memorial plaque
Hans Rosenthal (02.04.1925 - 10.02.1987) was a Jew who hid in a small summerhouse for two years during the Nazi regime. Subsequently, he had appearances as a television quizmaster, including in a television show called "Dalli Dalli".
With the memorial and information site, a courageous act has been brought to memory, with which still today Anstöße are given racism and anti-Semitism and right-wing extremist attitudes no place in the present and future to eingeruräumen.
.Hans Rosenthal Elementary School
The school was named after Hans Rosenthal in his honor. Since then, the students have been studying Rosenthal's history as a Jew and his survival during the Nazi era.
Hans Rosenthal (April 2, 1925 in Berlin; February 10, 1987) was a famous showmaster who had to hide from the Nazis in a summerhouse when he was 18 to 20 years old. He was survived at 62 by his son Gert Rosenthal, who himself has given interviews at the school and says that naming the school after his father was a matter close to his heart. Hans became famous through his show Dalli Dalli.
Shoe store - Bernhard Stühler
Bernhard Stühler saw the light of day in Hammelburg in 1856. His parents were Moses Stühler, born in Hammelburg in 1823, and Sara Stühler, née Stiefel. The traces of the Stühler family go back to the 18th century in Hammelburg. The father of Moses Stühler (grandfather of Bernhard Stühler) had earlier the name Aaron Moses (1783 - 1861) living in the Judengasse, but in the course of the Jewish emancipation then took the family name Stühler. Bernhard Stühler married Bertha, née Sondheim.