Apartment/Flat

The Minna Schwarz Home at Brunnenstraße 41 was founded in 1913 by the Berlin social reformer Minna Schwarz as a home for mothers and infants. It provided pregnant women and young mothers with housing, medical care, and social support. In the 1920s, a state-recognized training center for infant care was added.

The person who wrote the card might have been Adolf Silberstein or Alexander Silberstein.  - Adolf Silberstein was an innkeeper in Städtel and was married to Hendel (Johanna) Silberstein, née Lomnitz. The couple had five children: Leopold, born on June 18, 1858, in Städtel, lived in Munich from 1883 to 1905–06. -  Jakob, a merchant, born on September 25, 1861, in Städtel, Namsau County, Breslau, Silesia (today: Miejsce, Poland), married, died on August 4, 1934, in Munich. -  Alexander, born July 5, 1875, in Städtel, lived  in Munich from 1895 to 1912.

In 1942, the last ten Jewish residents still living in Goslar were forcibly confined by the Nazi regime to the small half-timbered corner house after being evicted from their homes. From there, they were later deported to the ghetto and the Theresienstadt concentration camp, as well as to the Auschwitz extermination camp.

The Durlacher family’s roots in Kippenheim can be traced back to the clothing merchant Moses Durlacher (1765–1841). Moses Durlacher was married to Besla, née Weil  (1779–1851).

Ruth Maier (born November 10, 1920, in Vienna; † December 1, 1942, at the Auschwitz concentration camp) was an Austrian-Jewish emigrant who lived in Norway beginning in 1939. She is best known for her diaries, which are now regarded as an important historical record of the Nazi era.

Bruno Freymann was born in 1883 in Neustadt near Danzig and, beginning in 1922, worked as managing director at the department store “Albert Langer, formerly E. Rohr & Sons”'39;, which was later taken over by the Messow & Waldschmidt Group. He lived in Pirna with his non-Jewish wife Elisabeth and their children Heinz Joachim and Marion. 

Frieda Hänsel, born on June 29, 1909, in Jessenitz, lived with her husband Rudolf and her son Günter at Lange Straße 11. Despite her conversion from Judaism to Christianity, her marriage was classified by the Nazis as a so-called “mixed marriage” and she was subjected to discrimination. Frieda Hänsel was arrested, deported, and murdered on February 26, 1943, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.

Rudolf Hertz was born on April 3, 1897, in Düsseldorfdorf, the son of the merchant Nathan Hirtz, known as Hertz, and his wife Sophie, née Gropp. His official birth name was Rudolf Hirtz. Rudolf Hertz moved to Bonn with his parents when he was still a child. There, he graduated from the Städtisches Gymnasium in August 1914. He then enlisted as a volunteer soldier. He ultimately served as a second lieutenant in the reserve in the signals unit. He served as a soldier without interruption until the end of the war in 1918.