Hohenzollern-Lichtspiele

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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.

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Alhambra-Lichtspiele

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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

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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.

Samuel Steinfeld

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Samuel Steinfeld was born on 23.01.1911 in Breslau. He came with his family to the Deblin Ghetto in 1940 and had to do forced labor there. In 1942 he was deported to the Czestochowa camp. In January 1944 he was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp and was further transferred to Staßfurt concentration camp. During the death march he managed to escape.