Apartment/Flat

The hexagram is known since ancient times as a - not originally Jewish - symbol for the defense of Bösem. The legendary King David is said to have carried it on his shield, and so explains the common name "Star of David" or actually "Shield of David" (Hebrew Magen David).

Dr. phil. Max Martin Sigmund Heinemann was born in Berlin as the son of the teacher Adolf Heinemann and his wife Martha, née Bamberger. Orphaned at an early age, he was financially supported by relatives on his mother's side, owners of the Tannenbaum, Pariser & Co. Luckenwalde cloth factory, to attend school and university. He had been married since April 1917 to Mathilde Hermeter (2.7.1878 Rosenheim - 4.12.1943 Leipzig). She and her daughter Anna Veronika (1896-1942) converted to the Jewish faith in February 1917. Anna Veronika married Dr. phil. Max Hofmann (1886-1966) on Nov.

After their marriage in 1762, the famous enlightener and pioneer of the Haskalah, Moses Mendelssohn, and his wife Fromet Mendelssohn (née Guggenheim) moved into the house at the former Spandauer Straße 68 (corner of Karl-Liebknecht-Straße). Before them, other enlighteners such as M. Mendelssohn's friend Gotthold Ephraim Lessing had already lived there. Until his death in 1786, M. Mendelssohn, like many Berlin Jews, was not allowed to buy the house.

The Birnbaum family lived here. The National Socialists converted the house into a  "Judenhaus" in 1938. 

At the beginning of the 18th century, the banker and "court factor" Issachar Berend Lehmann (born in Essen in 1661) had a baroque town palace built in Halberstadt's Judenstraße. Through his diplomatic skills, he had achieved some influence at the absolutist German courts. Among other things, he helped the Saxon Elector, August the Strong, to acquire the Polish royal crown.

Before the synagogue memorial stone:

• HERE WORKED CURTIS CASSELL RABBINER JG. 1912 FLIGHT 1939 ENGLAND SURVIVOR
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• HERE WORKED DR. IWAN JACOB GREEN RABBINER YEAR 1900 FLIGHT 1939 USA SURVIVED
• HERE WORKED IGNAZ MAYBAUM RABBINER JG. 1897 FLUCHT 1939 ENGLAND SURVIVED
• HERE WORKED DR. MARTIN SALOMONSKI RABBINER YEAR 1881 DEPORTED 1942 THERESIENSTADT AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 1944

HERE LIVED
. Frederick Jonas
JG. 1888
FLIGHT
DENMARK
SURVIVED
SURVIVED