Fabric wholesale - Bank business - Leopold Epstein

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In the address book of the trading bodies and factories of the imperial and royal capital and residence city of Vienna, then of several provincial cities for the year 1845, the following entry can be found: Mr. Epstein Lazar, from Prague, under the company name recorded here and in Prague: L. Epstein;  has the defeat of his k. k. privil. The brothers Israel and Ephraim Epstein from Prague laid the foundations for the economic rise of the Epstein family towards the end of the 18th century. They specialized in the printing of cotton fabrics, known as calico printing.

New Jewish cemetery Děčín-Folknářy / Tetschen-Falkendorf

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The New Jewish Cemetery in the Folknářy district was built to replace the Jewish cemetery in the Rozbělesy district of Děčín, which was closed in 1952 as part of the expansion of the industrial area. The remains from this cemetery were exhumed and transferred together with the gravestones to the New Jewish Cemetery in Děčín-Folknářy, which was part of the municipal cemetery (Volksanger). The Jewish area on the Volksanger was completely cleared around 1970.

Old Jewish cemetery Děčín-Rozbělesy / Tetschen-Rosawitz

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The Old Jewish Cemetery in Děčín-Rozbělesy was established in 1891 in the vicinity of the Christian cemetery and St. Wenceslas Church. It was damaged during the German occupation and dissolved together with the Christian cemetery in 1952 after the Kovohutě company (now Constellium Extrusions Děčín s.r.o) had expanded onto the plots of both cemeteries.

The remains were exhumed and transferred together with the gravestones to a separate part of the municipal cemetery in the Folknářy üřy district. 

Schools and educational institutions in the Jewish Ostend

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Frankfurt Ostend district was the city's Jewish quarter from the second half of the 19th century until the Nazi persecution. Around 1895, around a quarter of the residents were Jewish. In 1925, around 6,400 Jews lived in Ostend. Liberal, conservative and neo-orthodox Jews lived together here, as did immigrants from Eastern Europe from the 1880s onwards, with different rites and religious customs, which was also visible in everyday life and in the cityscape. The tour shows the dense network of Jewish schools and educational institutions in the district.

Adolf Jakob Bensinger

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Adolf Bensinger was born on March 8, 1866 as the first child of an upper middle-class Jewish family in Mannheim. After the early death of his father, he joined the board of the "Rheinische Gummi- und Celluloidfabrik", which he co-founded, at the age of 22. The globally successful company and the company "Wasserdichte Wäsche Lenel, Bensinger & Cie" enabled him to build up a considerable fortune.