Store/Shop

The Freidberg department store employed around 60 people until its forced sale in 1936. It was the largest department store in Celle before Karstadt, but from 1933 it suffered from the NSDAP's calls for a boycott, so that the business was closed in 1936 and Ida Freidberg emigrated to the USA in 1937.

Since 1881, Isidor Meyer ran a lingerie and trousseau shop in the Groäer Plan 3 building, which over time became a real department store, the "Hamburger Engros Lager". After he was able to acquire the adjacent building, he had an imposing and stylish business premises (CZ) built in 1905 in place of the two half-timbered houses.

At this time, the company employed 30 people and had 300 customers a day. Isidor Meyer was a member of various prestigious associations and from 1900 to 1913 was head of the Jewish community in Celle.

Oskar Salomon took over his late father's outerwear and shoe business at Poststra<e 4 / Großer Plan in 1907. In the years that followed, he specialized in shoes and moved his business, the "Schuhhaus Salomon", to Zöllnerstraße 35 in 1914 and then to Poststraße 7 in April 1929.

The Hasall men's clothing store was opened in 1932 by Hans Salomon at Poststra<e 1.

On April 1, 1933, the store was affected by the boycott campaign of the NSDAP like other companies owned by Jewish owners.

In the November pogrom night of 1938, the shop windows of his business were smashed and furnishings and goods were scattered on the street.

The siblings Siegmund and Margarete Pörutz ran a publishing house with a print shop and a boarding house with six beds in Heringsdorf.

On February 12, 1940, the siblings were deported to the Piaski Luterskie ghetto via Stettin and Lublin.

Magarete Pörutz, born on March 27, 1880 in Anklam, died there on August 16, 1940, Siemund Pörutz, born on April 18, 1874 in Anklam, died in the Piaski Luterskie ghetto on December 2, 1941.

Saulmann - Kaufhaus für Textilien und Mode

Erich Saulmann was born on January 14, 1899 in Heringsdorf. He was married to Elisabeth Saulmann, née Reihs (* February 25, 1906 in Teplitz-Sch nau) and had three children with her (Ilse Rose Saulmann, * May 29, 1928 - Hilde Ruth Saulmann, * August 2, 1930 - Eva-Karla Saulmann, * March 6, 1936).

Erich Saulmann ran a department store for textiles and fashion in Heringsdorf. Boycott and expropriation were followed by the deportation of the Saulmann family on February 12, 1940 

The address book of the city of Karlsruhe from 1937 contains the following entry: Baer Max, Eisenwarenhandlung, Gartenstraöe 12. - In the fall of 1935, Max Baer, exporter of small ironware to France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and the French colonies, applied for a foreign passport. The Karlsruhe Chamber of Industry and Commerce approved the application with reference to Baer's monthly export earnings of 15,000 Reichsmarks and the fact that the French competition was trying to make it impossible for Baer to continue its business activities.

Alfred Meth was born on May 24, 1875 in Königshütte.he was married to Flora, née Appel,born on July 25, 1879 in Kattowitz.the couple married on March 11, 1901 in Kattowitz. They had four children -  Elfriede,born on December 13, 1901 in Ravensburg - married to Max Friedrich Grünfeld,cantor in Baden-Baden. - Herta, born on June 25, 1903, married in Berlin, lived in Haifa since 1935 - Dorothea, born on November 17, 1904 in Schw.

Simon Guthmann von Hamm, born in 1836  was married to Emilie Heidweyer von Worms, born in 1839. He came to Worms in the middle of the 19th century and settled at Paulusstra e 3 as a malt manufacturer and grain merchant. Simon and Emilie Guthmann had four children - Bernhard, born on 1.9.1862 in Worms, - Rosa, - born on 7.5.1866 in Worms, Ludwig, born on 24.8.1871 in Worms  and Max, born on 11.5.1874 in Worms.

In Greven's Adreßbuch von Köln und Umgegend, Adreßbuch der Kreise Köln-Land, sowie von Bensberg, Bergisch-Gladbach und Porz aus dem Jahr 1933 findet folgende Eintrag - Gebr. Fried & Alsberg, Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, ( Geschäftsführ.Siegfr. and Dr. jur. Alfr. Alsberg and Karl Jak. and Otto Fried and Alfr. Rosenstein, here, Franz Goldmann, Berlin, Moritz Klein and Max Simon, Düsseldorf ) (E) Textilwarengroßhandlung, Am Neumarkt 8  10 (entrance: Richmondtraße).