Julius Joel
Julius Joel was born in Colmberg on October 29, 1850. The parents were Faustus Joel and Mina Joel, née Ullmann. Julius Joel had a house in Colmberg – Am Markt 12. He married Sara Schwab, who was born in Uehlfeld on August 4, 1857. The couple had 6 children – Elsa born August 6, 1885, - Lothan, born October 6, 1886, - Leon,born January 28, 1888, - Karl Amson, the grandfather of „ Billy Joel, born November 20, 1889, - Melitta Frieda,born January 30, 1896.
Rabbi Shmuel Sperber
Rabbi Shmuel Sperber, born in 1905 in Brasov (Kronstadt) in Siebenbürgen in Rumänien. His father David Sperber was a rabbi in Brasov and Av Beit Din (chairman of a Beth Din rabbinical court. In his youth, Shmuel Sperber studied in the yeshivas of Oyber-Visheve under the wings of Rabbi Eliezer David Grünwald and Rabbi Mendel Hager. After his ordination (semichah) as a rabbi and his marriage, he lived in the Romanian city of Iasi, where on June 29, 1941, the Isai Death Train with 13,000 victims marked the conclusion of the largest pogrom against the Jewish population in Romania.
Philosopher,Private lecturer - Prof. Dr. Fritz Heinemann
Entry address book Frankfurt a.M.1928- Heinemann Fritz,Dr.phil. Privatdozent,Mendelssohn-Str.81-Erdgeschoß.
Otto, Hilde, Anne & Hugh Brian Markus
Residence / Office - Dr. Lewis Marcus
Writer,Director,Dramaturg - Otto Zoff
Otto Zoff was born in Prague on April 9, 1890.His father was a Catholic and came from ÖAustria.His mother was Jewish and came from Czechoslovakia.At the age of two, Otto Zoff´s family moved to ÖAustria.In Vienna, Otto Zoff studied art history and archäology,literature, and history.In 1914.
Painter, illustrator - Edmund Fürst
Edmund Fürst, born on January 6, 1874 in Berlin - died 1955 in Tel Aviv was a painter, etcher and illustrator.His love for painting was probably already laid in the cradle.His father Gustav Gerson Fürst,who attended the „Berlin Art School“,received an education at the Royal Pattern School in Berlin and studied art in Paris from 1862 to 1870.From 1870 he made his living as a decorative painter,furnishing villas and private homes with wall and ceiling paintings.From 1872 to 1880 and 1892 he participated in the Berlin Academy Exhibitions.From 1881 - 1914 Gustav Gerson Fürst was a member of the
Robert Weilheimer
Curt Sobernheim
The Berlin address book 1916 contains the following entry: Sobernheim Curt, Director at Commerz. - und Disconto Bank, W50 - Augsburger Straße 2nd - 3rd Erdg. Cp. - T. Lzw. 4730.