Store/Shop

The address book of the city of Munich from 1901 contains the following entry: Degginger & Heß, Holzhandlung, ( owner Benjamin Degginger and Emil Heß ) Comptoir Landsbergerstraße 61, Detail-Lager Landsbergerstraße 82, Engros-Lager Westendstraße 167. - Degginger Benjamin (Degginger & Heß) Merchant, Göthestr.

The following entry can be found in the directory of the committee of Viennese merchants from the year  ???? : 1875 - Schlesinger Heinrich, Commissions- und Agenturgeschäfts - Inhaber, Firma: Schlesinger & Kanitz, VII. Dreilaufergasse 13.

Hirsch Lengel was born in 1873 in the small Galician town of Dąbrowa, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Around 1897, he married Bertha Lengel, née Lirt, who also came from Dąbrowa. At that time, there was a large Jewish community in the town, but it was very difficult for Jews to earn a living, and after the birth of their fourth child in 1903, the Lengel family decided to leave Dąbrowa.

The Less family's manufactured goods business at Gro en Bäckerstra e 18 was affected by boycott campaigns; in 1941, the family fled into exile in the USA via the USSR   . All of their assets were confiscated by the Gestapo.

In 1906, the family Adolf and Hulda Schickler moved from Nienburg to Lüneburg. They took over the house at Bardowicker Straße 4 from Louis Rosenbaum, who had run a household goods store here. The Schicklers now set up a specialty store for shoes and men's clothing, which soon became a permanent fixture and a very popular place to shop in Lüneburg. The family lived above the store. All the children worked in the shop at times. In 1928, son Harry Schickler took over the business.

In the 1930s, Lüneburg's largest and most modern department store „Gubi“ was located at Markt 6. Henry Jacobson took over the lingerie and trousseau shop from his father and converted it into the small price store Gubi (good and cheap) in 1932. The department store offered all the everyday necessities: from clothing and stationery to food. At the time, it was very unusual for the goods to be displayed freely and for customers to be able to put together their own purchases using rulers. There was a snack bar on the second floor.

The shoe store was founded by Aron Behr in 1852 and taken over by his son Max Behr in 1917. Max Behr died in 1924, leaving behind his wife Lucie and three children. His widow Lucie Behr married Sally Baden in 1925. Both continued to run the shoe business. 

The publishing house and Hebrew bookshop Josef Schlesinger was founded in 1858. From 1898, Rosa Schlesinger, born on March 14, 1873, was the owner. The managing director and authorized signatory was Moses David Schlesinger, born on August 8, 1876. On November 14, 1938, the business was closed according to a notification from Moses David Schlesinger dated December 13, 1938 to the Vienna Property Transaction Office. Rosa Schlesinger died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her deportation date was September 10, 1942.

The Berlin address book - 1879 edition contains the following entry - Meyer Cohn, Unter den Linden 11 - Meyer Cohn was born on March 10, 1817 in Bromberg. His parents were Isaak Alexander Cohn, born in Amsterdam, and Johanna Michaelis, daughter of Meyer Michaelis von Landsberg. Meyer Cohn was married to Jeanne (Jenny) Cohn (Heymann), born in Berlin on October 9, 1830, daughter of Aron Hirsch Heymann, banker, merchant and  board member of the Jewish community in Berlin and Johanna Heymann, née Leipziger.