Store/Shop

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.

In the address book of the city of Bayreuth from 1884, the following entry can be found in the alphabetical list of residents: Würzburger Jakob, Herrenkleidermagazin.

In the Reichenbacher Straße 12 had the raw products dealer Israel Kapitalnik 1929 his business called "I. Kapitalnik raw products shop". In 1934 the business was no longer listed in the Greiz address book.

Abraham Kapitalnik owned the raw products shop "Kapitalnik & Co., Textilabfälle" in Weberstra;e 10. In his shop he bought skins, rags, wool waste, waste paper, iron and metals. In 1934, the shop was no longer to be found in the address directory of Greiz.

In the Müncher address book from 1900 there is an entry: Aischmann Josef, Hopfen- und Exportgeschäft, Ludwigstra;e 60 (T), Wohnung Pilotystra;e 7/3.Josef  Aischmann, born on September 2, 1852 in Mühlhausen (Thüringen) was married to Malwine, née Fürther, born on August 2, 1865 in München. The couple had two children - Justus, born December 14, 1886 in Nürnberg and Klarisse Claire Liliane, born October 29, 1890 in Nürnberg. The family moved from Nürnberg to Munich around 1900.