City walk Leipzig

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The trade fair and university city of Leipzig, located about 35 kilometers southeast of Halle/Saale in the center of the Leipzig Lowland Bay, is today with its 580,000 inhabitants* the largest city in the Free State of Saxony.

Department store - Ury Brothers

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The brothers Moritz and Julius Ury founded the "Warenhaus Gebrüder Ury" on March 24, 1896. A comprehensive reconstruction in 1913/1914 turned the building into a magnificent six-story building with an atrium. The assortment of haberdashery, white goods and woolen goods was extensively expanded. Already in 1937 the brothers Moritz and Julius Ury were forced to leave the company. As a result of the so-called "Aryanization", in 1938 the Gebrüder Ury department store became the Textilmessehaus II with a flower store and a tax office. Moritz Ury died in exile in Switzerland in 1939.

Moritz Chamizer

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Dr. phil. Moritz Chamizer was a renowned orientalist of his time. He was the director of the Oriental department of the Drugulin publishing house in Leipzig and a great lover of bibliophilia. His collection included autographs of Goethe, letters and manuscripts of Heine, books, pictures and graphics. His extremely extensive oriental library later became part of the National Library in Jerusalem.

Law office - Isaak Herzfelder

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Isaak Herzfelder was born on May 31, 1836 in Obernbreit. He was married to Luise Herzfelder née Löwenbach (born March 21, 1849 in Munich). The couple had two daughters: Marie verh. Gump (b. 1871) and Ida verh. Moos (b. 1886). Isaak Herzfelder died on November 11, 1904 in Augsburg. His wife Luise succeeded him on January 14, 1905 in Augsburg. Both were buried in the Jewish cemetery (Haunstetter Strasse) in Augsburg.

Haberdashery and toy wholesaler - Wernecker & Farnbacher

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The owners of the company Wernecker & Farnbacher - Otto and Fritz Farnbacher had to sell the company and the house to the company Grimm, Schmitt and Co. KG in 1938 in the course of the so-called Aryanization. Later the house was transferred to the NSDAP. Fritz Farnbacher had been the owner of a residential house at Hochfeldstraße 31 since 1925. In 1938 he was forced to sell his residential house and take in other Jewish families. His wife had to work in the balloon factory.

Rabbi Dr. Richard Grünfeld

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The postcard from Rabbi Grünfeld and wife to Hannah Stein was sent from Augsburg on August 23, 1928. The sender of the card was Rabbi Richard Grünfeld and his wife Cäcilie Lilli Grünfeld née Stein. The recipient of the card was the niece Hannah Stein, who was probably in Stetten am kalten Markt at that time for a course at the Hochschule für Leibesübungen. The card is mostly written in Hebrew, only the last lines are a greeting from Cäcilie Lilli Grünfeld to her niece.