Apartment/Flat

The Jacob family had lived in Werder since 1909/10. The two sons Hans (born 10.10.1910) and Kurt (born 15.01.1912) were born here. Their older sister Käte (born 05.05.1909) was born in Jüterborg - the previous place of residence.
Paula Jacob died on 30.12.1912 in Werder.
On 25.05.1915 Max Jacob married Else Jacob, with whom he also raised his three children. There were no children from this second marriage.

Johanna Margarethe Stern, née Lippmann, was born in Berlin on January 6, 1874, the daughter of Theodor Lippmann and Caecilie Gerschel.

Later in her life, she married Samuel Siegbert Stern, who like her was of the Jewish faith, and had four children with him: Hilde Sophie, Hans Martin, Louise Henriette and Annie Regina.

Siegbert Stern was a co-founder of the ladies' coat factory „Graumann & Stern“, which had been in existence since 1888. The success of this company enabled the couple to buy the Stern villa in Neubabelsberg in Potsdam in 1918.

Born on November 11, 1906 in Görlitz, she grew up as the daughter of factory owner Ernst Hamburger and his wife Clara Zipora. Ruth had two brothers, Fritz and Rudolph. Her father died early and her older brother Fritz fell in the First World War in 1914. From then on, Ruth lived with her niece Eva, Fritz's daughter, whose mother was not a teenager. In 1930, the family moved to Fürstenberg/Havel, where Ruth's mother bought a villa and converted it into a guesthouse. Ruth and her niece Eva lived there and most of the guests were young.

Wilhelm Kann was born into a well-known Jewish banking family in 1880 and exerted a considerable influence on Jewish life in Potsdam during his varied life.

His grandfather of the same name opened the W. Kann banking house at Nauener Strasse 32 (now Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 113) in 1842, after moving to Potsdam from Eberswalde with his family, wife and three children in 1840. The shop was located opposite the old synagogue and the Jewish community center.

On July 30, 1873, Alfred Guttmann was born in Posen (now Poznań, PL). His parents were the merchant Albrecht Guttmann (1845–1919) and Ernestine Guttmann, née Haenisch. After leaving school, he studied medicine and singing from 1894–1898 and received his doctorate from Berlin University in 1898. Alfred Guttmann also studied psychology and musicology in Berlin from 1901. After volunteering for the First World War, he worked as a front-line doctor for three and a half years. He not only practiced medicine, but also appeared as a concert performer from 1894.

Walter Johann Guttsmann was born in Berlin on 8 May 1880.

The Ziegler family

Heinrich Ziegler, born in 1884, was an important Jewish doctor. He worked at the maternity clinic and as a school doctor. However, after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he lost these public positions because of his Jewish origins, even though he had served in the First World War. This dismissal was part of the systematic discrimination and exclusion of Jewish citizens by the Nazi regime. From then on, Ziegler was only able to treat private patients, which severely limited his professional opportunities.

Born on 06.07.1885 in Obernkirchen, district of Rinteln, died on 10.05.1957 in London at the age of 72

Former residence of Dr. Emil Strauß at Lüner Weg 8 – a bomb attack was carried out here in 1929; the lawyer was considered a central target of anti-Jewish attacks due to his great influence within Lüneburg and the Jewish community and fled into exile to London in 1939.

His law practice was located at Kleine Bäckerstra&;e 6/7.

The address book of the city of Nürnberg from 1882 contains the following entry: Obstgasse 2, Rindskopf Lippm., merchant. - Johanna (Hanna) Rindskopf was born on October 26, 1830. Her parents were Arnold (Ahron) Arnstein, born on November 23, 1800 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, and Adelheid Kohn, born on February 3, 1803 in  Markt Erlbach . Johanna Arnstein was married to Lippmann Rindskopf, born on August 25, 1819, son of Seligmann (Selke) Rindskopf, born on March 9, 1797 and Babette (Breindel) Rindskopf, née Arnstein, born in 1799.

Max Oppenheimer was born in Feuchtwangen on June 15, 1895. His parents were the master tanner and owner of a leather shop Leopold Oppenheimer and Karoline Oppenheimer, née Silbermann. Max Oppenheimer also had a sister, Betthy, born on March 16, 1889 in Feuchtwangen. She was married to the brush manufacturer Steindecker from Bechhofen, owner of the Marx Schloß brush factory there. Betthy Steindecker. She was deported from Nürnberg to Izbica and has since been considered missing. Max Oppenheimer was a private in the 3rd Infantry Regiment No. 23.