Hamburger Engros Lager Meyer & Co - The department store for fashions and dowries
Since 1881, Isidor Meyer ran a lingerie and trousseau shop in the Groäer Plan 3 building, which over time became a real department store, the "Hamburger Engros Lager". After he was able to acquire the adjacent building, he had an imposing and stylish business premises (CZ) built in 1905 in place of the two half-timbered houses.
At this time, the company employed 30 people and had 300 customers a day. Isidor Meyer was a member of various prestigious associations and from 1900 to 1913 was head of the Jewish community in Celle.
Oskar Salomon shoe store
Oskar Salomon took over his late father's outerwear and shoe business at Poststra<e 4 / Großer Plan in 1907. In the years that followed, he specialized in shoes and moved his business, the "Schuhhaus Salomon", to Zöllnerstraße 35 in 1914 and then to Poststraße 7 in April 1929.
Herrenmodehaus Hasall - Owner Hans Salomon
The Hasall men's clothing store was opened in 1932 by Hans Salomon at Poststra<e 1.
On April 1, 1933, the store was affected by the boycott campaign of the NSDAP like other companies owned by Jewish owners.
In the November pogrom night of 1938, the shop windows of his business were smashed and furnishings and goods were scattered on the street.
Dina Strauss
Dina Strauß was born on February 3, 1900 in Binswangen as the daughter of Salomon Strauß and Betty Strauß, née Binswanger.her father Salomon Strauß traded in country products,lived in Binswangen in today's Hauptstraße 30,then still house number 171 and had a warehouse in Lauingen.in 1913 Dina Strauss moved with her family to Augsburg to the purchased house at Schrannenstraße 6, from where Salomon Strauß ran the grain wholesale business J.J. Strauß.
Merchant Alfred Saulmann and grandmother Elise
Businessman Alfred Saulmann, born on 11.09.1893 in Heringsdorf, ran the clothing store ‘Saulmann‘ in Heringsdorf (Wilhelmstraße, today Friedenstraße 17) together with his younger brother Erich.
The unmarried Alfred Saulmann lived together with his grandmother Elise Saulmann, née. Wiele, born on 29.11.68 in Lippehne, in house no. 13 of Wilhelmstraße (today Friedenstraße).
Hotel Esplanade / Kugel & Altbaum
The Hotel Esplanade was built in 1896 as ‚Schloss Dorothea‘ and renamed ‚Schloss Bruck‘ in 1910.
Cassel's Restaurant and Pension - former branch Ostseebad Heringsdorf
Koscher Restaurant and Pension, founded in 1892, owner Leopold Peltesohn.
Publishing & Printing and Pension Pörutz
The siblings Siegmund and Margarete Pörutz ran a publishing house with a print shop and a boarding house with six beds in Heringsdorf.
On February 12, 1940, the siblings were deported to the Piaski Luterskie ghetto via Stettin and Lublin.
Magarete Pörutz, born on March 27, 1880 in Anklam, died there on August 16, 1940, Siemund Pörutz, born on April 18, 1874 in Anklam, died in the Piaski Luterskie ghetto on December 2, 1941.
Saulmann - Department store with cloth, manufactured and fashion goods
Saulmann - Kaufhaus für Textilien und Mode
Erich Saulmann was born on January 14, 1899 in Heringsdorf. He was married to Elisabeth Saulmann, née Reihs (* February 25, 1906 in Teplitz-Sch nau) and had three children with her (Ilse Rose Saulmann, * May 29, 1928 - Hilde Ruth Saulmann, * August 2, 1930 - Eva-Karla Saulmann, * March 6, 1936).
Erich Saulmann ran a department store for textiles and fashion in Heringsdorf. Boycott and expropriation were followed by the deportation of the Saulmann family on February 12, 1940
Halle (Saale)
The post-war Jewish community in Halle
At the time of the invasion by Soviet troops, only 49 Jews were still living in the city on the Saale and the surrounding area. Shoah survivors decided to return as early as the summer of 1945. Many of the "displaced persons" now arriving in Halle had survived the Nazi era in concentration camps, for example. While some were passing through, others were looking for a new home here in view of their destroyed homes.