Friede, Louis Walther

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Louis Walther Friede, born March 27, 1896 in Magdeburg. The son of Jewish parents, Paul Albert and Ottilie Friede (née Frank), he grew up in Helmstedt. In 1930 he married the non-Jewish (goyah) Anna Maria Magdalena Herrmann in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Friede was last listed in the Berlin address book of 1940 with the job title of office clerk and the mandatory forced name suffix "Israel".

Baum, Wolf Felix

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Wolf Felix Wilhelm Baum was born in Samter (Szamotuly, northwest of Poznan) on Aug. 27, 1875, the son of the master tailor Moritz Baum and his wife Frieda, née Mendel. At the age of 15, he came to Berlin, where he established a wholesale button business in 1906, first in Klosterstraße, later in Spandauer Straße, and finally, from 1936, in Heiligegeiststraße. It must have been a thriving business that lasted until its liquidation in 1939. After the November pogroms, Wolf Felix Baum was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen for several months.

Friede, Anna Magdalena

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Anna Maria Magdalena Herrmann was born in 1907. She married Louis Walther Friede, a Jewish office worker, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf in 1930. The couple had two sons together. After her husband was arrested in 1943 on account of his Jewish origins, she became successfully involved with the

Baum, Martha

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Martha Baum, née Cohn, was born in Berlin on 13.12.1880 as the fifth child of the meat merchant Moritz (Mendel) Cohn and his wife Therese. Her mother died when she was two years old. In 1909/10 Martha Cohn had her own photographic studio in Frankfurter Allee. In 1910 she married Wolf Felix Baum. Her two daughters, Mia Mirjam and Gerda, were both able to emigrate in time, Mia to Palestine and Gerda to Chile. In September 1941, the Baum couple was expelled from their apartment at Meraner Str. 8 and forcibly moved into the house at Nymphenburger Strasse 4 with Mrs.