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The publishing house W. Vobach & Co. published not only art portfolios but also works on education, music education and upbringing. This corresponded to the reform ideas of the time - a spirit that was supported by many Jewish publishers, schools, theaters and newspapers in Friedrichstrasse.

This creative class was not defined by blood, but by education, language and hard work - the very milieu in which Willi Vobach was honored.
 

Universalverlag W. Vobach & Co,.

The address Frankfurter Allee 40 is demonstrably associated with the publishing house W. Vobach & Co. The building was constructed around 1906 with the involvement of the Vobach family. In the context of Nazi persecution, the property was seized – and not clearly transferred back after 1945.

Willy Vobach and the legacy of a European publishing dynasty Willy Vobach came from a traditional Jewish publishing family whose roots can be traced back to the early 19th century: his grandfather, Karl August Vobach, was a publisher in Potsdam, while his father Gustav Rudolf August Robert Vobach ran the publishing house in Leipzig. From the middle of the 19th century at the latest, the family was not only active in Potsdam and Leipzig, but also in Berlin, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.

In the book by  " Hans Franke, Geschichte und Schicksal der Juden in Heilbronn " can be found on page 286 in the section - Industrie,- Handels- und Gewerbebetriebe - Jüdische Firmen gemäß dem Heilbronner Adreßbuch vom Jahre 1931 - also the following entry " Gebrüder Ottenheimer, Inh. Emil und Max Ottenheimer, Kleiderfabrik, Badstr. 4 - In the Israelite community list of April 1, 1937 (Hans Franke book, page 290) the following entries - Ottenheimer Emil, family, clothing factory, Titotstr. 9  -  Ottenheimer Max, family, clothing factory, Titotstr. 9.

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.