Baumweg 5-7
The building at Baumweg 5-7 housed the Moritz and Johanna Oppenheim Kindergarten for Israelites from 1907 to 1938. During the Second World War, the "Aryanized" property housed the kindergarten of the Nazi People's Welfare Association. Immediately after the liberation of Frankfurt by the US Army in March 1945, the property was made available to the Jewish community and a care center for Jews was set up. After renovation and conversion of the building, the Baumweg Synagogue in the front part of the building was inaugurated on March 10, 1949.
Alfred-J.-Meyers-Platz
Alfred Joseph Meyers (1895-1956) was a Frankfurt industrialist and president of FSV Frankfurt from 1929 to 1933. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1895 into a German-Jewish family. In 1916, he married Alicia "Liesel" Gertrude Dahlsheimer from Frankfurt. Their children Norbert and Edwin were born in 1922 and 1927 respectively. They attended the Philanthropin. The family lived in the Westend and attended the liberal Westend Synagogue there. Alfred Meyers founded "Enameline Werke" in Höchst am Main in 1917 together with his brother William.
Boys' home Beith Neorim (Beth Nearim)
The buildings in Hölderlinstraße, which included house number 10, were erected in 1903; the architect Carl Runkwitz was responsible for the plans and the construction company commissioned was Cohn & Kreh. From around 1906/07, the building housed an auxiliary school. From the 1930s at the latest, the address was linked to the history of the neighboring Samson-Raphael-Hirsch-Realschule. Due to increasing persecution in the Frankfurt area and far beyond, many families now sought shelter there for their children.
Hotel-Restaurant Löwenhof
The institution, centrally located at the old Hanau railroad station/east station, advertised with moderate overnight prices, home-style and kosher cuisine "Polish and Romanian style". It was sometimes noted in the press that the majority of guests had an Eastern European, i.e. migrant, rather than a "Western" biographical history. When it was founded - the date is not known - the establishment first traded as Hotel Ostbahnhof, then as Hotel Diehl and finally - completely renovated - as Hotel Löwenhof; until the end of 1923 under owner or director Adolf Mangel.
Law firm - Robert Sonnenwald
After the departure in 1928 of the long-serving president of the Jewish Community of Graz, founded in 1869, Kommerzialrat Simon Rendi, in 1928, he was replaced by lawyer Dr. Robert Sonnenwald. Dr. Robert Sonnenwald emigrated abroad in 1938.
Lawyer, businessman, stamp dealer - Paul Strauss
The address book of the city of Munich from 1920 contains the following entry: Rosenthal 2 - u.a. - Strauss Ernst, Getreide- und Futterbedarf ( business). Paul Strauss was born on May 13, 1883 in Munich. His parents were the merchant Ernst Emanuel Strauss (trading in grain and fodder) and Klara Strauss, née Langermann. Paul Strauss had three siblings - Leo Karl Strauss, born on June 11, 1885 in Munich, - Nathalie, born on August 16, 1890 in Munich and Thea, born on October 9, 1898 in Munich.
Kosher butcher Albert Stern
After the Shoah, the few surviving men and women from the Theresienstadt camp were quartered in various emergency shelters in Frankfurt; these included the retirement home at Sandweg 7 in eastern Nordend and the former, badly damaged hospital of the Israelite community at Gagernstraße 36 in Ostend, as well as the former Israelite elementary school at Röderbergweg 29. In addition to the strict rationing of food, the observance of kashrut, the dietary laws, made things even more difficult for Jews. "The first kosher butcher's shop ... was also in Theobald-Christ-Straße.
Residential building for survivors of the Shoah from the Föhrenwald DP camp
In the 1950s, Nassauische Heimstätte (now the Nassauische Heimstätte/Wohnstadt (NHW) group of companies) also built apartments for survivors of the Shoah in cooperation with the city of Frankfurt am Main. To this end, in 1953 the city increased its capital contributions in favor of Heimstätte and the housing associations it manages by two million Deutschmarks.
Café Goldschmidt
From the middle of the 19th century, after the gradual demolition of the Judengasse, the former ghetto, Wilhelminian-style residential and commercial buildings were built on the demolition sites. One of the new buildings was the well-known Café Goldschmidt, prominently located in the immediate vicinity of the main synagogue, which was inaugurated in 1860.
Straw and felt hat factory - Landauer & Stern, owner Carl Marum
The address book of the city of Frankfurt am Main from 1895 contains the following entries: Landauer & Stern, neue Kräme 10, Stroh- u. Filzhutfabrik, E. Carl Marum. - Marum Carl, merchant, ( see Landauer & Stern ), Praunheimerstr. )9p. - The 1903 address book contains the following entry: Landauer & Stern, Kaiserstr. 53, Herren- u. Damenhüte, Blumen, Federn, Nouveautes, E. Carl Marum, P. Stephanie Marum u. Alfr.