Store/Shop

In the city address book Kreuznach from the year 1902 the following entry can be found: - Stern Moses, Fruchthandlung, Inhaber Louis Stern, Bismarckplatz 6, Tel.- Nr.31.

The Vienna Address Book 1891 contains the following entries: Pollak Emanuel & Sohn, Weingroßhandlung., k.u.k.. Hof-Weinhandlung, Rudolfsheim, Schönbrunnerstra;e 74, Rudolfsheim, Neugasse 8.  -  Pollak Wilhelm, Mariahilferstraße 93, Emanuel Pollak & Sohn, k.u.k.. Hof-Weinhändler. - Text of the postcard - Salzburg, 10.3.1891. - On behalf of Mrs. Pollak I kindly request you to send 10 bottles of good red wine for poor blood by express delivery to the address given - Mr. Regimental Doctor Leopold Herz, Pilsen, Prager Strasse No.

Sigmund Fischer was the operator of a textile store on Bismarckstrasse in downtown Görlitz. Plündert, the window panes smashed in the pogrom night on November 9, 1938, the Fischers were sent together with the last üsurviving Görlitzer Jews on the transport to Tormersdorf b. Rothenburg / Ol. and from there, further sent to the death camps. The son of Sigmund and Betty Fischer survived the Holocaust überlebt, he lives in Israel.

With the department store Totschek and also the fashion house Meirowsky arose on the Steinstra;e to this day existing relics of the department store culture at the beginning of the 19th century, which significantly enriched the Görlitzer city center and attracted customers from the entire city perimeter to the shopping pleasure.

The property on Salomonstra;e in the city center of Görlitz was built around 1883 with a residential and commercial building including a rear building. The cloth manufacturer Louis Stiasny had the rear building rebuilt in 1893. He used it as a salesroom for the scarves, bags, neckerchiefs and other accessories for ladies that he produced. Because of the building situation, only the courtyard side could be provided with windows, Stiasny had a glass-roofed atrium designed.

Built as an Art Nouveau department store "Zum Strauss" by the Jewish merchant Louis Friedländer on the model of the Wertheim department store in Berlin, the Görlitz department store is the only one of its era that still exists today in its original structural form. The building impresses above all with its colossal interior architecture.

Martin Ephraim was during his lifetime one of the biggest Mäzene of the city, city councilor and member of the Lower Silesian Chamber of Commerce Görlitz/Breslau. His life ended in Theresienstadt. In addition to the Villa Ephraim in Görlitz on Goethestra;e, the Kontorgebäude of the former iron trading company also commemorates the Ephraim family. The administration of the Ephraim Eisenhandelsgesellschaft was once located in the house at Zittauer Stra&szlig 64. A Stolperstein in memory of Martin Ephraim was accompanied in the presence of family members from Dresden, the USA and UK.