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The ‚Elbe-Sägewerk Schöna GmbH‘ had been owned by Emil Kaim and Albert Seligson from Berlin-Charlottenburg since 1921. They also ran sawmills in Berlin and Breslau. The Kaim couple regularly spent their vacations in their own house in Schöna na. After the Kaims were expelled from the town as Jews, at the end of 1938 the mayor of Sch na put the estate, which had possibly already gone bankrupt due to boycott measures, up for sale or lease.

Max Choyke, who had been working as an artificial flower manufacturer in Sebnitz since 1900, left the town in 1934, giving up his business, and moved to Dresden with his wife Else. Their last registered address before their deportation to Theresienstadt was the building at Zeughausstrasse 1 in Dresden, which was used as a so-called Jews' house during the Second World War until 1945.

Max Choyke

Immediately after the transfer of power to the Nazis, anti-Semitic measures were taken against the ‚Elbschloss Malzfabrik‘.

Built in 1900, the tire-shaped round hall housed several trading stalls and a Jewish poultry slaughterhouse. In 1927, the Jewish community of Krakow leased the building and built a larger butcher's shop in the previously empty inner courtyard.

The Stuttgart address book 1919 contains the following entries: Löwenstein u. Comp., Baumwollwarenfabrik, Teilh.Henriette Löwenstein We. und Paul Löwenstein, Sonnenbergstr.21 Eg. - Löwenstein Henriette, Kaufmanns We., part owner of Löwenstein u. Comp., Sonnenbergstr. 21. 1.u.2. - Löwenstein Paul, Kaufmann, part owner of Löwenstein u. Comp., Gartenstr.21. Eg. Cannstatt. - Henriette Löwenstein, née Seeligmann was born in Karlsruhe on March 1, 1814. She was married twice - her first marriage was to Heinrich Lahnstein, born in Bockenheim around 1794, who died in Stuttgart on January 9, 1838.

Eduard Lichtblau, known as " Rudolf " was born in Vienna on April 16, 1837. His parents were Jakob Lichtblau, born on April 14, 1811 in Senica ( Szenitz ) and Marie Lichtblau, née M ller, born on October 17, 1814 in Senica.

Metallwarenfabriken Waldes & Co. was founded on July 1, 1902 by Hynek Puc and Jindřich Waldes in Prague. The company specialized in the manufacture of press studs. There were further operations in Dresden (from 1904), New York (from 1919 Waldes Kohinoor Inc.), Barcelona (from 1921 Waldes y Cia), London (from 1922), Paris, Vienna and Warsaw.

The company was Aryanized and from 1939 operated under the name KOH-I-NOOH Metallwarenfabrik Puc und Merzinger

Today, the company still exists as KOH-I-NOOR a.s. in Prague.

In 1896, the Jewish merchant Jacob Strauss from Eisenach set up a branch office in Kempten of the retail business he had founded in 1882. In 1904, he moved to Kempten with his family and continued the business he had founded in 1882. He ran the business successfully until 1919, when he handed it over to his youngest son Josef. Josef Strau< was one of the few Jewish house owners in Kempten and owned a detached house in Wytschaetestra<e in addition to the business premises in Immenstädter Straße. In February 1938, Josef Strauß emigrated to Liechtenstein.