Apartment/Flat

Ludwig Simon (1880-1962) married in 1922 in Berlin- Charlottenburg Mrs. Martha Elkan (1900-1994). Together with their son Herbert Simon, born in 1926, they lived from about 1926/27 until March 26, 1939 at what was then Dernburgstraße 46; from 1936 the address was Gustloffstraße 15 (renamed after the National Socialist Wilhelm Gustloff). On November 11, 1938, shortly after the Reich Pogrom Night, Ludwig Simon was arrested and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Postcard from the childhood - youth of Dr. Fritz Feuchtwanger. Here he writes at the age of 15 to his mother Rosa Feuchtwanger from Anvers in Belgium.

Rosa Feuchtwanger was the wife of Ansom Feuchtwanger, the founder of the banking house Gebrüder Feuchtwanger. The card writer was her son Fritz Feuchtwanger, who, after studying medicine in Strasbourg and Munich, received his medical license in 1914 and was deployed as a military doctor in World War 1. After the end of the war, he settled as a general practitioner and obstetrician in Munich at Dachauer Straße 187. In 1937 he handed over the practice and emigrated to London.

Emma Samuel, née Arnheim was deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on July 8, 1942. On 19 September 1942 from Theresienstadt to the extermination camp Treblinka and murdered there.

Erle is a village in the southwestern Münsterland.

Only one Jewish family lived in Erle, named Herz, later Cahn. They moved to the village in 1824 and later ran a textile and haberdashery store in the center of the village.

The residence of the Cahn family is preserved and is located opposite the church.

In 1842, the Cahn family acquired a plot of land on Schermbecker Straße and built a cemetery there. A total of 11 members of the family were buried there.

There was no synagogue. The family probably belonged to the Jewish community of Schermbeck.

Lina Morgenstern was a writer, women's rights activist and social activist. Born on November 25 in Breslau as the third of six children of the Jewish furniture and antique dealer Albert Bauer and his wife Fanny (née Adler), she founded the " Pfennigverein zur Unterstützung armer Schulkinder" (penny association for the support of poor schoolchildren) in Breslau together with friends as early as 1848. In 1854 she married the merchant Theodor Morgenstern (1827-1910) and moved to Berlin. In 1857 Lina Morgenstern began writing children's books.

The former Jewish House in Wanfried, Windgasse 5 is located in an area of the town where Jews already lived in the times of the landgraves (area: Windgasse, Steinweg, Kleine Gasse, Vor dem Schloß).

The house in Windgasse 5 was built by a Jewish merchant in 1620.

To the right of the building was once the synagogue. In 1937, the town of Wanfried expropriated the synagogue.