Apartment/Flat

The Chemnitz address book from 1939 contains the following entry: Mandel Emanuel, Dipl.-Ing.,Weststr.5 I. - The Viennese engineer Emanuel Mandel had been married to Anni Oppenheimer, daughter of Hugo Max and Betty Oppenheim, since 1930. Her father Hugo Max Oppenheimer had already died in 1921. Her brother Fritz Oppenheimer (company commander and lieutenant in the reserve) was killed by gunfire in a battle near the village of Hollebeke (Belgium) on September 19, 1918 during the First World War. After the death of their father, their brother Dr.

Ascher GmbH, founded by his father in 1904, is successful. He buys a 3,000 square meter plot of land in Zehlendorf's Niklasstraße and commissions the prominent architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg to build a prestigious villa. In 1909, the family moved into the property, which was one of the first in the newly developing residential area. Fritz Ascher is 16 years old and begins his studies at the Königsberg Academy of Art. After completing his studies, he returns to Berlin and sets up a studio in his parents' villa.

Wasastraße 7 – Villa of the Eger family – so-called ‚Judenhaus‘

The Jewish Eger family were forced by the city of Dresden to take in Jewish subtenants in their villa. The house was given the status of a 'Judenhaus' (Nazi jargon).

The so-called 'Judenhäuser' were the last stage of National Socialist exclusion and disenfranchisement of Jewish citizens in the Reich territory before their deportation to the Nazi extermination camps.

In 1859, the merchant and confectioner Sigmund Rosenbaum acquired the stately property at 1/3 Kulmbacher Strasse. The building, formerly owned by the noble von Redwitz family, is also known as the Upper Castle. Sigmund Rosenbaum had been licensed to trade in delicatessen products since 1833; in 1859, he was also granted a concession to trade in sawn goods. In 1869, Simon and Leopold Rosenbaum took over the business and the residential building and continued to run the company under the name "Sigmund Rosenbaum's Söhne“.

Hermann Joseph Löwenstein was married to Julie Blum, who was born in Aufhausen near Bopfingen on March 20, 1882. The couple married on April 22, 1906 in Nördlingen. The postcard was written by her sister Klara, who was 9 years younger and married 7 years after Klara's wedding on August 11, 1913 in Nördlingen. Text of the card - My dear ones. I have received your card dear Julie and thank you for the good wishes and chocolate. My birthday was spent very happily. At noon we were invited to Frieda's for dinner and in the evening there was a Liberal meeting.

Klara Blum was born on July 8, 1891 in Nördlingen.her parents were the grain merchant Abraham Blum, born on February 24, 1842 in Bopfingen-Aufhausen and his wife Karoline, née Hess, born on September 16, 1850 in Bopfingen-Aufhausen.Abraham Blum had been a citizen of the town of Nördlingen since 1894.Klara had 12 siblings. All of them were born in Bopfingen-Aufhausen.Anna,born on July 28, 1871 died on December 7, 1942  in Theresienstadt.Louis,born on  December 28, 1872-emigrated to Tel Aviv.Berthold,born on June 3, 1874 died in Tel Aviv. Bertha, born ca.

Rosa Conradi was born on June 11, 1911 in Dresden as the daughter of Robert and Martha Conradi (née Riesenfeld). During the November pogrom of 1938, her apartment at Schäferstraße 11 was vandalized. Rosa and her daughter Irmgard were forced to move to Bautzner Strasse 20. She worked as a housemaid. Rosa Conradi was arrested in November 1939 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. On May 29, 1942, she was murdered by medical experiments in the Bernburg an der Saale torture facility.

Laura Jonas, née Loewenthal, was born on October 23, 1867 in Jastrowie (German: Jastrow). Her husband Simon Sigismund Jonas, was born on February 13, 1866 in Rogoźno (German: Rogasen). The Jonas couple moved from Wrocław (German: Breslau) to Dresden in 1921, where Simon Sigismund Jonas ran a successful retail business for cigars. Their four children also lived here. Mr. and Mrs. Jonas initially lived at Reichsplatz 1 (first floor) in 1921; in 1925 they moved to the first floor of Haydnstra<e 16.