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The Jewish cemetery in the Weißensee district is one of the largest in Europe, with over 115,000 graves. Its "architecturally remarkable" mourning hall was inaugurated in 1880. Numerous Berlin personalities such as the Hebrew writer Micha Josef Bin Gorion (1865-1921) or the painter Lesser Ury (1861-1931) are buried in the approximately 42-hectare cemetery. The layout of the cemetery goes back to the design of the architect Hugo Licht (1841-1923).

The upper middle-class villa directly on the Eilenriede city park was built in 1903-1906 for Siegmund Seligmann (1853-1925), the Jewish director of Continental AG, and his family. Since joining the company in 1876, Seligmann had turned the "Continental Caoutchouc- und Gutta-Percha-Compagnie" into a global enterprise in just a few decades. In 1921 he was honored with an honorary doctorate from the Technical University, and in 1923 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Hanover.

The Anne Frank Zentrum, which opened in Berlin on June 12, 1998, is the German partner organization of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The center commemorates Anne Frank's life and her diary with exhibitions and educational programs. In this way, visitors are given access to the history of the Holocaust and encouraged to confront anti-Semitism in the past and present.

The sender of the postcard Betty Zimmer, née Möller came to death in March 1942 in the Izbica ghetto in Poland. The husband Menki Zimmer also came there to death after March 1942.

Due to the economic boom, more and more Jewish families settled in Kreuzberg's Oranienstra&szlig in the 19th century. Hermann Leiser, who ran an egg business, also lived here. In 1889, his nephew Julius Klausner, then fifteen years old, moved to Berlin with the intention of opening a shoe shop. With the financial support of his uncle, Julius set up a shoe shop in the backyard of Oranienstraße 34 in 1891. Due to the low prices offered, demand from customers quickly increased. After only two years, the sales space became too small, and „the business-minded Julius“ expanded his business.