Apartment/Flat

Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt was born on February 10, 1853 in Mainz and his parents were Salomon Benedikt Goldschmidt and Josephine Edle von Portheim. 1875-1878 he was an assistant at the Freiberg Mining Academy after studying to become a metallurgical engineer. 1880 he received his doctorate in mechanical rock analysis under Heinrich Rosenbusch in Heidelberg. In the years 1882-1887, Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt studied in Vienna and from 1887 was a freelance scientist in Heidelberg, living at Sophienstra&szlig 3.

Elisabeth Kaiser was born in Celle on January 22, 1870. Little is known about her life in Celle, but little is known about her origins: her father was the postmaster Melchior Stern, her mother Laura a daughter of the highly respected Celle sanitary councillor Dr. Philipp Simon Dawosky. On her mother's side, she was also related to one of the oldest Jewish families in Celle, that of the court agent Gans. Elisabeth and her brother Bernhard, who was two years younger, were orphaned early on: Their parents died in 1875 and 1876 respectively.

The following entry can be found in the address book of the city of Munich and the surrounding area for the year 1928: Cahn Emil, Hauptvertreter,Grimmstr. 4/1 - Emil Cahn was born on August 4, 1861 in Wertheim. His parents were the merchant Moritz Cahn and Johanna Cahn, née Friedmann. Emil Cahn married Selma Weil, who was born in Oberdorf on February 9, 1867, on November 29, 1887 in Oberdorf (today Bopfingen-Oberdorf).

Siddy Wronsky (née Sidonie Neufeld) was born in Berlin on July 20, 1883. Wronsky's father was of German origin, her mother came from Eastern Europe. She began her career as a teacher and later studied special education. From 1908, Wronksy headed the Archive for Welfare Care in Berlin, at that time still a department of the Central Office for Private Welfare, and was a member of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare Care (DV) and the Central Welfare Office of Jews in Germany (ZWST). She was editor of the leading "Deutsche Zeitschrift für Wohlfahrtspflege".

Margarete Berent was born into a Jewish family in Berlin on July 9, 1887. After her teacher's examination, she worked as a teacher and passed her university entrance examination in 1910. She studied law and political science in Berlin, where women had been allowed to study since 1908, but were not admitted to the state law examinations until 1922. In 1913, Berent completed her studies with a dissertation on "Die Zugewinngemeinschaft der Ehegatten". This work laid the foundation for the reorganization of matrimonial property law in 1958.

Jeanette Schwerin (née Abarbanell) was born into a socially committed, wealthy Jewish family in Berlin on November 21, 1852. She attended the Academy for the Scientific Education of Young Ladies and took courses in economics and history at university. In 1872, she married the doctor and medical officer Ernst Schwerin, and their Berlin apartment became a center of cultural life. 

Hildegard von Gierke was born in Breslau on September 30, 1880. Her parents were cosmopolitan and Protestant, her father was a well-known legal scholar and her mother came from a Jewish publishing family.

Hilde Lion was born on May 14, 1893 as the third of four children into a wealthy Jewish merchant family in Hamburg. At that time, women were not allowed to take A-levels or study. Lion initially trained as a teacher. Her work as a teacher sensitized her to the plight of working-class children.

Dr. Willy Katz was the only Jewish doctor licensed to provide medical care for Dresden Jews from 1939 to 1945. He was therefore allowed to keep his practice and apartment at Borsbergstrasse 14, and continued to practice after 1945.
Dr. Katz is mentioned several times in Victor Klemperer's diaries "I will bear witness to the last".

Home of Victor Klemperer, academic at the TU Dresden and later a member of the Kulturbund radio station. Known for his book "LTI, die Sprache der Dritten Reiches", and his diaries "Ich werde Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzen" and "Das kleinere Uebel"

The house was built in 1934. Victor Klemperer and his wife were forced to move out in 1940 and were able to return in the summer of 1945.