Apartment/Flat

Hertha Fackenheim was born in Kassel on April 1, 1896. She grew up as the daughter of the factory owner Hermann Oppenheim and his wife Rieka in Kassel.

In 1920 she married Alfred Fackenheim. And moved with him to Eisenach. There their daughter Erika was born in 1923.

When the living conditions for the Jewish population in Germany became increasingly difficult, the Fackenheims sent their daughter to Palestine. They wanted to follow her later, but the outbreak of the war prevented their emigration.

Alfred Fackenheim was born on November 9, 1891 in Eisenach. His father was Julius Fackenheim.

Alfred went to school in Eisenach and then learned the profession of a banker. In the First World War he volunteered for military service.

After the end of the war, he opened a private bank in the väterlichen house, the „Heim-Bank“. This went however in the time of the world economic crisis 1929 into bankruptcy.

Alfred married in the year 1920 Hertha Oppenheim.

Elfriede Brylewski was born in Suhl on April 9, 1906. Her parents were Aron and Emma Brylewski. These were owners of the well-known department store Leschnitzer in Suhl. 

Elfriede met and fell in love with her späteren husband at a young age. At the age of 19, Elfriede moved to Eisenach in 1927, after marrying Ludwig.

three-storey and gable-roofed gable-roofed building with half-timbered upper storey and aborter bay, in the core around 1400; remains of a mikvah

three-story and eaves tails roof building with medieval core

The Süskind family was originally based in Neuenhaus. Julius Süskind (b. 1888), however, operated a large used goods trade from Nordhorn, ranging from raw skins to industrial equipment. He lived with wife Ennegje, called „Emilie“, née Jakobs from Werlte as well as the children Siegfried (b. 1929) and Julie (called „Julchen“, b. 1930) the house in the Alkenstiege on the outskirts of the city center of Nordhorn.

The Schaap family had been based in Nordhorn for a long time. After the business in the Ochsenstraße was destroyed in a district fire, the butcher shop moved to the Lingener Straße. There, son Moritz (born 1895) and his wife Erna, née Oppenheimer from Osnabrück, took over the management of the business. Daughter Lina Schaap married Salomon David de Jong from Utrecht and moved to him in the Netherlands.

Max Salomonson, born in 1892 in Nordhorn, ran a prosperous business in the Hauptstra;e, but died very early at the age of 41 in 1933. He was married to Rosetta „Rika“, born 1901 in Werlte Frank. Their daughter Ruth was born in Osnabrück in 1929. She first attended the Altendorf school, but in 1938 she had to leave, like all other Jewish students, because of the order that Jews were not allowed to attend German schools.“ Like the other Jüdische Schüler she attended from then on the castle school.

Josef Salomonson, born in 1860 in Nordhorn, was a leading member of the Jewish community. For a long time he held the chair, led the services and taught the boys in religious matters of Judaism. The fact that he knew a variety of languages: the regional Low German, Yiddish and Hebräisch, Dutch, English and French, came in handy in his commercial life.

Josef Salomonson died already in 1930; his wife Emma née Dankwert followed him in 1937. Both lie in the Nordhorn Jewish cemetery in a double grave – a relative novelty in view of the single graves prevailing so far.