Martha Heilborn was born in Klein - Zabrze (Upper Silesia) on August 17, 1877, the daughter of Salomon Heilborn and his wife Marie, née Richter. She married the merchant Otto Rechnitz in 1899 and moved with him to Kottbus.

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Siegfried Priester was born in Berlin on December 28, 1904, the son of Hugo Priester and his wife Rosalie, née Schkud. He became a textile merchant. His father died in 1922, his mother moved with him and his sister Margarethe to Wielandstraße 22. His sister Margarethe was still able to emigrate to England, his mother was deported to Theresienstadt on August 5, 1942. After his mother's deportation, Siegfried Priester continued to live in the apartment at Wielandstraße 22 until the baker from the house diagonally across the street turned him in to the Gestapo.

<p>Rosalie Schkud was born in Berlin on June 1, 1875 to Jewish parents Salomon Schkud and Sara, n&eacute;e Mark. The family lived at Georgenkirchplatz 4. The father was a merchant and died before 1884, the mother Sara Schkud moved with the children to Weinbergsweg 15. Rosalie had a brother, Tobias Schkud, born on November 7, 1864. Rosalie married Hugo Priester, a Jewish cotton merchant born on January 28, 1872 in K&ouml;nigsh&uuml;tte/Beuthen, on June 8, 1900. They had three children: Edith, born on April 25, 1900, who died in 1918 in the</p>