Theodor Herzl School
A first forerunner of the Theodor Herzl School was founded in 1920. Due to the constant growth in the number of students, they had to move regularly. During the National Socialist era, the number of students tripled; in 1936, it rose to as many as 609. In 1934, the school found its final location at Kaiserdamm 78. The special feature was that an emphasis was placed on the teaching of Jewish history as well as Hebrew, which can be justified by the fact that it was a Zionist school that prepared its students for emigration to Palestine.
Simon family apartment
Ludwig Simon (1880-1962) married in 1922 in Berlin- Charlottenburg Mrs. Martha Elkan (1900-1994). Together with their son Herbert Simon, born in 1926, they lived from about 1926/27 until March 26, 1939 at what was then Dernburgstraße 46; from 1936 the address was Gustloffstraße 15 (renamed after the National Socialist Wilhelm Gustloff). On November 11, 1938, shortly after the Reich Pogrom Night, Ludwig Simon was arrested and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Berlin Rowing Club "Triton" e.V.
On 01.10.1898 the Jew Harry Hahn founded the Berlin Rowing Club "Triton" e.V. He became 1st chairman, while Herbert Gedalius acted as secretary and Siegfried Glasfeld as 1st treasurer. It was obvious to all that it was a Jewish club, since in the middle of the flag a Star of David was placed.
Samuel Steinfeld
Born in Breslau, Samuel Steinfeld began working as a vegetable wholesaler in Deblin, Poland. During the German occupation, his closest relatives were murdered. After the war, he stayed in Berlin and Dresden, trying to establish an economic existence. What we know about him comes mostly from his estate, which is in the archive of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Martin Friedländer
Martin Friedländer was born in Berlin, the son of a Jewish merchant, followed a similar professional path as his father from 1934 onwards and began a commercial career in the clothing industry. Because he physically attacked a Gestapo informer who had betrayed his sister s hiding place, he was arrested in 1943, tortured, and obliged to do forced labor in railroad construction and garbage collection s. While one of his sisters and her child did not survive the Holocaust, Friedländer was liberated from Auschwitz.
Helene Zahn
Helene "Lola" Zahn (henceforth called Lola) is a communist and economist born in Hamburg in 1910 and daughter of the Russian-Jewish Lazar Golodetz and his wife Malka. She survived the Nazi period by emigrating to France and the United States, after which she went to the Soviet Occupation Zone/German Democratic Republic out of political conviction.
Charlotte Wolff
Charlotte Wolff was a versatile woman who demonstrated great strength, intelligence and courage in her life. During the second half of the 1920s, she worked as a doctor at the Berlin Charité. When she had to stop her work in 1933 due to the Nazi regime, and was arrested by the Gestapo - on suspicion of espionage as well as wearing men's clothing - for a short time, she fled to France. Since Charlotte Wolff was not allowed to work as a doctor in France, she earned her living by analyzing the character of people's hands.
Werner Händler
Werner Händler: A Voice of the GDR
Werner Händler (1920-2008) was an important radio journalist of the German Democratic Republic. He worked his entire professional life for the radio of the German Democratic Republic. As a political commentator, foreign and Bonn correspondent, he explained the world to his GDR audience and the GDR to foreign listeners*. Händler saw himself as a political journalist of the GDR. In doing so, Händler always remained true to the SED party line.
Music publisher - Anton J. Benjamin
Department store - Nathan Israel
The Israel family succeeded in building a large department store from a small family trade. Nathan Israel was a Jewish merchant who founded the N. Israel department store in 1815. The leadership was passed on within the family. Under the leadership of brothers Berthold and Hermann Israel, the department store expanded greatly, employing 1,300 people. They exported and sold travel goods, fashion items, gifts, furniture and cleaning supplies. In 1939, the company was "Aryanized" in the course of National Socialism.