Store/Shop

Kalman Hirsch Ellenberg was born on June 18, 1882 in Galicia. He entered the egg trade and on April 3, 1907, together with Chaim Kesten, founded the company Ellenberg und Kesten, a „wholesale egg business“. From 1909, he also traded in butter with his new partner Ludwig Haueisen. In 1920, the egg traders in the south-west merged to form „Vereinigte Eierimporteure Württemberg GmbH“, whose managing director Ellenberg, who had changed his first name to Karl in the meantime, became.

Heymann Ephraim Jacobus was born in Schivelbein in 1827. He initially ran a cloth and fashion goods shop in Greifenberg. In 1860, he acquired a residential and commercial building at Markt 14 in Schivelbein and opened a distillery there. During the anti-Semitic Schivelbein Excesses on August 7, 1881, the shop was destroyed and looted: In Heymann Jacobus „s store, the schnapps stocks ran down the throats of the people: the fury was kindled, the frenzy had reached its peak.“ „At H.E.

Arthur Lewin came from Schwetz an der Oder, his wife Elise Engel from Schönlanke in the Netzkreis district. It is documented that Arthur and Elise Lewin settled in Schivelbein in the Pomeranian hinterland in 1908 at the latest.Probably even earlier, because on February 11, 1909, they announced in the Schivelbeiner Kreiszeitung the „closing of the seasonal clearance sale“ the winter sale –. They had opened a shop for textiles and manufactured goods in a prime location on the market square and moved into the apartment above.

At the end of the 19th century, Hermann Herzheim had a new store built with shop windows up to the 2nd floor. Later, his grandsons remodeled the store in the style of modern department store architecture. 1925 marked the 100th anniversary of the Herzheim department store. During the Nazi era, the Herzheim family also came under pressure due to calls for a boycott. In May 1938, they were forced to sell the business for less than it was worth. Karl-Theo Herzheim, the last owner, and his wife were only able to escape deportation and survive the Shoah by fleeing to the British Mandate.