Department store - A. Spanier
The picture postcard shows the department store A. Spanier still in Karolinenstraße. The Augsburg address book for 1933, printed in 1932, documents the living and ownership conditions even before the National Socialists came to power. There, the address of the department store A. Spanier (Address Book 1902 Litera B 258 Annaplatz ) is Martin-Luther-Platz 5 as of 1933. The department store A.
Noack-Lichtspiele
On this site was the cinema Noack-Lichtspiele, which, in addition to the Alhambra in Spandau and the Hohenzollern Games in Friedenau, was also run by Rudolf Pollak (1901-1937). The latter died in Vienna in 1937 as a result of an attack on him by Nazis that had occurred earlier in Berlin.
The cinema, which already existed since 1906, was destroyed in the Second World War in 1943 and then demolished.
Hohenzollern-Lichtspiele
On this site was the Hohenzollern Lichtspielhaus between 1912 and 1943. In the meantime, Rudolf Pollak (1901-1937) ran the cinema alongside the Alhambra Lichtspiele in Spandau and the Noak Lichtspiele in Mitte. Rudolf Pollak died in Vienna in 1937 as a result of an attack on him by Nazis while still in Berlin.
.Alhambra-Lichtspiele
Here was the Alhambra Lichtspielhaus, whose owners between 1930 and 1932 included Rudolf Pollak (1901-1937). Other cinemas managed by him were the Hohenzollern and the Noack Lichtspiele in Berlin. He died in Vienna in 1937 as a result of an attack on him by Nazis while still in Berlin.
Shoe store - Emanuel Polatschek
Emanuel Polatschek, the brothers Alois and Hermann Polatschek founded each for himself a shoe store. Emanuel Polatschek in Augsburg, Alois Polatschek in Ulm and Hermann Polatschek in Nuremberg. Already before 1933, in February 1931, the calls for boycotts against Jewish businesses began in Augsburg with an advertisement in the Neue Nationalzeitung.
Furniture store Adolf Eigner
Zwilsky family
Friedländer, Martin
Werner and Hella Händler (post-war period)
Werner (1920-2008) and Hella (1923-2013, née Simon) Händler lived here from 1952, and both lived here until their deaths.