The Jewish cemetery Hemsbach
The Jewish Cemetery Hemsbach is a Jewish cemetery in Hemsbach, a town in the Rhine-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg. The cemetery is a cultural monument worthy of protection. The Jewish cemetery of Hemsbach was established in 1674. It is located east of the village on the Mühlweg. The dead from the villages in the area were also buried here.
Horse shop - Meyerstein u. Walther
In the address book Gotha 1924/25 the following entry can be found - Meyerstein & Walther, Pferdehdlg., Kastanienallee 4, H R
Stocking and glove factory - Heller & Askonas
In 1875, the Viennese factory owners Moriz Heller and Emil Askonas took over the knitting factory of Franz and Franziska Danzinger in Schrems.The family names Heller and Askonas became the company and brand name of the hosiery and glove factory " Hellas ". The sales office of the stocking and glove factory was located in Vienna at Gonzagagasse 3. The factories themselves were located in Schrems in Lower Austria and in Györ in Hungary.
Prayer room of the synagogue community Detmold
1939-1942
Textile store - Hamburg Brothers
Already in the Mainer address book of 1865 ( Mainzer Wegweiser) the following entry is found - Hamburg Leopold, Ellenwaarenhändler, Höfchen 5.
Textile store - Albert David
He lived "Großer Markt 13",today's "Markt 10" (Karstadt). He was a merchant. Albert David was born on August 9, 1876 in Hoerstgen He was married to Selma, née Gottschalk from Cologne. Selma died already on November 26, 1931 in Geldern.Albert David was a successful merchant and ran a textile business in Geldern, Großer Markt 13. Anti-Jewish measures , including calls for boycotts by the National Socialists eventually forced him to close the business.He leased the business and fled to Gennep in the Netherlands.
The Early Modern Period
The Early Modern Period (roughly the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) was an era marked by radical sociopolitical changes affecting Jews.
After expulsions during the Middle Ages, Jews returned to live in the Holy Roman Empire beginning in the sixteenth century. Their residency rights were governed by letters of protection issued by the ruling kaisers, kings, and princes. These letters survive as testimony to the difficult legal status of Jews in the roughly 300 German territories.
Textile wholesale - A.H.Rothschild
Owner of the textile wholesale A.H.Rothschild, Kaiserstrasse 167 was the merchant and textile merchant Salomon Rothschild born on December 11, 1859 in Bretten.1939 he emigrated to Holland.On February 16, 1943 he was deported from there to the transit camp Westerbork and already a week later, on February 23 further to the extermination camp Sobibor in Poland, where he then came to death.
Jewish cemetery Sennfeld (Baden)
In 1882 a cemetery of the Jewish community was established near the railroad line Jagstfeld - Osterburken a few hundred meters from the village. Here the Jews from Sennfeld and the neighboring communities of Adelsheim and Korb were buried. There are 128 gravestones documented in the archives. In addition, a memorial stone was erected for the Jewish soldiers who died in the 1st World War.