Apartment/Flat

München, June 11, 1914.  - Dear Mrs. Lotte. - My two cards to you have remained without reply and I am now in the greatest anxiety as to what will happen now, because I know of no one else to turn to. Grete Wollheim is still in Friedrichsrode. I can't wait for her to come home, as it won't be decided for another 14 days whether she is fit for work. Yesterday Regine Deutsch arrived unexpectedly and I'm coming back with her at 6 o'clock on Saturday evening. I would like to ask you the following.

The Rabbi's Villa was a symbol of Michael Cahn's social standing. It is large and elegant and was designed to accommodate several tenants, including craftsmen, merchants and bankers who were involved in Fulda society, including the merchant Oskar Nussbaum, who owned a specialist leather goods shop and was politically active in the DDP. His wife Klara campaigned for children from poorer families and chaired the board of trustees of the Israelite kindergarten which moved into the villa in 1927 but had to close again in 1933.

The " Villa Adelaide " was named after Adelaide Bamberger, wife of Rabbi Simon Bamberger, who lived in Fischach near Augsburg. The villa itself was built in 1908 in Bad Kissingen by Rabbi Dr. Seckel Bamberger (son of Simon Bamberger) and his wife Nanette, née Bamberger, at Promenadestraße 5c. Children: Seckel Bamberger and his wife Nanette had seven children - Sarah, married name Neuwirth, Kehla, Seligmann Bär, Yiras, married name Adler, Simcha Simon, Moses Löb and Adelaide, married name Jutkowski. Dr. Seckel Bamberger was considered one of the most orthodox and learned rabbis of his time.

Elisabeth Pick, née Markus, was born in Mainz on April 7, 1871. Her husband Franz Pick († 1932) was co-owner of the malt factory Niedersedlitz; the marriage produced three children. Pick lived her last years in the „Judenhaus“ Caspar-David-Friedrich-Straße 15b; after receiving the deportation order to Theresienstadt she took her own life on January 27, 1942.

For the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Pick was a Jew; according to her own understanding, the daughter of emancipated, converted Jews and widow of a German officer was a German Protestant and patriot.

The address book of the city of Munich from 1920 contains the following entry: Rosenthal 2 - u.a. - Strauss Ernst, Getreide- und Futterbedarf  ( business).  Paul Strauss was born on May 13, 1883 in Munich. His parents were the merchant Ernst Emanuel Strauss (trading in grain and fodder) and Klara Strauss, née Langermann. Paul Strauss had three siblings - Leo Karl Strauss, born on June 11, 1885 in Munich, - Nathalie, born on August 16, 1890 in Munich and Thea, born on October 9, 1898 in Munich.

In the 1950s, Nassauische Heimstätte (now the Nassauische Heimstätte/Wohnstadt (NHW) group of companies) also built apartments for survivors of the Shoah in cooperation with the city of Frankfurt am Main. To this end, in 1953 the city increased its capital contributions in favor of Heimstätte and the housing associations it manages by two million Deutschmarks.

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.