The department store Herrmann Gerson was one of the oldest textile department stores in Berlin, known for its elegant fashion, high-quality fabrics and carpets. Hermann Gerson was one of the pioneers of Berlin ready-to-wear. The department store was famous for its fashion shows, and its clientele was well-heeled. In fashion magazines of the 1920s, for example, Die Dame or Styl can be found many drawings of exquisite Gerson models.

Also in the collections of the JMB can be found some materials related to the Gerson department store:

Moritz Dobrin (1872-1951) arrived in the booming Reich capital from East Prussia as a young man and quickly expanded after opening his first café at Alexanderstraße 14c. He advertised in the Jewish press and also explicitly addressed a Jewish clientele who bought kosher products. Thus the barches, the yeast pastries available in his stores on Fridays for Shabbat and holidays, or matzos for Passover. His cafes and stores offered a wide selection of the most delicious pastries and desserts - a price list, a copy of which has been preserved in the Jewish Museum Berlin, lists them all!

A boy who üsurvived.