Apartment/Flat

Alfred Philippson (1864 - 1953) was the youngest son of the rabbi and writer Ludwig Philippson and his second wife Mathilde. Ludwig Philippson (1811- 1889) moved to Bonn when he retired on May 1, 1862. His early retirement at the age of 51 was due to a congenital disease that led to almost complete blindness. His final resting place is in the Jewish cemetery in Bonn-Castell, on the corner of Römerstra<e and Augustus-Ring.

The aim is to commemorate the fates of the Jewish Schönewald and Kosses families, who lived at Bachstra<e 9 in Paderborn before and during the Nazi era. Jakob Schönewald acquired the house in 1907, which was later taken over by his son Dagobert. The Schönewald family was deported to Riga in 1941, where only Selma Schönewald survived the ghetto. Her husband and two sons presumably died in Auschwitz in 1943.

The important German-Israeli writer Jenny Aloni was born on September 7, 1917 in the midwifery school in Paderborn and grew up as the daughter of Jewish parents, the merchant Moritz Rosenbaum and his wife Henny, in the residential and commercial building at Bachstrasse 2, which no longer exists today.

The Gärtner family lived in Barnstorf from 1910, most recently at Bahnhofstra<e 139, the house we are standing in front of. Before they moved in here, they lived with the Wesermann family for some time.

In Barnstorf, Max Gärtner was a respected cattle dealer, just like his father and his brother. He owned a plot of land with stables; he also had a lot of grazing land in the community. Max Gärtner preferred to trade in large livestock: he bought the cattle in the surrounding area and sold them in Osnabrück and Dortmund.

The Dortmund address book from 1930 contains the following entry:  Elias Otto, Dr., Rechtsanwalt u. Notar, F 37352, Hansastr.50, Wohn: Prinz-Friedrich-Karl Str.15. - Otto (Salomon) Elias was born in Dortmund in March 1876. His parents were the merchant Adolph Elias and Julie, née Schwarz. On June 3, 1899, Otto Elias received his doctorate in Erlangen on the subject of „The loan mortgage according to common and civil law“. From 1907, the lawyer worked in a law firm partnership with his brother-in-law Dr.

Friederike Mannheimer was born in 1872, deported in 1944 and murdered in Auschwitz.