Nathan Marcus Adler

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Dr. phil. Nathan Marcus Adler was a German-British rabbi and chief rabbi. He performed his duties both in the German cities of Oldenburg and Hanover and in London. In the process, he served as the regional rabbi in the Duchy of Oldenburg until 1830, after which he replaced his father (Chief Rabbi of the British Empire) in Hanover and became Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire in 1845. Adler was significant as a representative of a mediating position between rigid Orthodoxy and extreme Enlightenment. 

"Community for peace and construction"

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Hans Winkler was born in Berlin in 1906. After completing his administrative apprenticeship, he worked at the Luckenwalde district court. In November 1933, he was summoned to the town hall to record interrogations. Since these interrogations took place under torture, Winkler's personal-political turn came and he was convinced that he had to resist. Following an idea by Else Samuel, he founded the "Sparverein großer Einsatz" to collect money and food for Jews in hiding.

Residence of the Schutzjuden Levin Moses, arms dealer

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Levin Moses (about 1721-1808) was the first Schutzjude who was allowed to settle in Luckenwalde. The acquisition of a house was only possible because Frederick the Great wanted to advance his porcelain manufactory.In order to receive a privilege, each Jew had to purchase porcelain for 300 thalers and export it abroad.

Rindenau family home

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Mrs. Dora Rindenau was born Dora Preminger in 1883 and deported to Riga at the age of 59. Her further fate, as well as that of her children Berta and Philipp Rindenau, is unknown. Berta Rindenau was committed to the Teupitz sanatorium and nursing home in 1938 at the age of 19. In 1942 she was also deported to Riga. Her brother Philipp, one year younger, was deported to Poland in 1938. From there he was able to escape to the Soviet Union in 1939.

Gerhard Boche residence

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Gerhard Boche was born in 1921 and arrested in 1944 because of "wehrkraftzersetzender Äußerungen", sentenced to death at the age of 23 and executed in 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee. The rest of his family also suffered severely during the Nazi regime.

Schneider family home

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Mr. Leo Schneider, born in 1894, was arrested in 1935 for insulting the Führer and beaten to death in Berlin-Moabit prison. His wife Hanna Schneider, born in Berlin in 1895, was deported to Poland as a stateless person in 1938. On September 21, 1942, the Day of Atonement, she was shot in Vilna. The son of the two, Max Schneider, born in 1922, was deported to Poland in 1938. In 1939, he emigrated to Palestine and thus survived the Holocaust.