Apartment/Flat

Here lived Erwin Elkan Jg. 1924 deported murdered

Helene Elkan Geb. Müller Jg. 1885 lived here Deported 1942 Zamosc Murdered

Here lived Siegmund Elkan Jg. 1882 Deported 1942 Zamosc murdered

Here lived Edith Selig, born 1916, escape 1938, Palestine, survived

Here lived Otto Selig, born 1879, deported 1942, Zamosc, ???

Here lived Elfriede Selig, born 1893, deported 1942, Zamosc, ???

Here lived Henriette Selig, born 1884, deported 1942, Zamosc, ???

Here lived Bernhard Selig, born 1885, deported 1942, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, murdered

Here lived Ruth Selig, born 1915, escaped 1938, Palestine, survived

Here lived Hedwig Selig, born 1895, deported 1942, Zamosc, ???

The sender gives on the back of the card in one of the last lines still the reference to Shavuot - " It was high time"

Shavout 5681 was on June 12, 1921 - three days before the scribe wrote the card.

In the Jewish address book of the city of Frankfurt 1935 ( The 1935 Jewish Frankfurt Addressbook ) is the following entry  -  Carlebach Max, Kfm., Glauburgstr. ~7.

The house on the corner of Werlestraße/Graben in Heppenheim was built at the end of the 19th century . In 1916, the religious philosopher Martin Buber moved into it with his wife Paula, née Winkler, and their two children, Rafael (born 1900) and Eva (born 1901). The family lived here for four years as tenants before Buber purchased the house with its large walled garden. It housed, among other things, the philosopher's extensive library, in which works such as I and Thou" and the first part of his Bibleütranslation were produced.

In the " Jewish address book for Greater Berlin 1929/30 " the names of the Jews living at the Kurfürstendamm at the end of the 20s are listed

- with it - Max Abraham, merchant, Kurfürstendamm 181.

Dr. Johanna Philippson (1887-1986) taught German, history and English in public schools from 1912-1933. Until 1933, the Oberstudienrätin was on the school board of the city of Berlin. From 1935-1939 she taught in Jewish community schools. Also prominent as a women's rights activist, she emigrated to England in 1939 and taught English to refugees at the Jewish Refugee Committee. After the war, she published works on German-Jewish history, anti-Semitism and family history.

The residence of Else Lasker-Schüler from 1924 to 1933 at the Hotel Sachsenhof.