Apartment/Flat

Dr. phil. Moritz Chamizer was a renowned orientalist of his time. He was the director of the Oriental department of the Drugulin publishing house in Leipzig and a great lover of bibliophilia. His collection included autographs of Goethe, letters and manuscripts of Heine, books, pictures and graphics. His extremely extensive oriental library later became part of the National Library in Jerusalem.

Werner (1920-2008) and Hella (1923-2013, née Simon) Händler lived here from 1952, and both lived here until their deaths. 

Samuel Steinfeld was born on 23.01.1911 in Breslau. He came with his family to the Deblin Ghetto in 1940 and had to do forced labor there. In 1942 he was deported to the Czestochowa camp. In January 1944 he was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp and was further transferred to Staßfurt concentration camp. During the death march he managed to escape.

Born in Dresden in 1891, Simon Leiserowitsch is one of the early stars of German soccer history. After the East Jewish family moved to Berlin in 1910, the young man, often just called Sim, played soccer first for Hertha and then for Tennis-Borussia Berlin. The right winger's greatest success was winning the Crown Prince's Cup in 1918 as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg selection. After his active career, Leiserowitsch returned temporarily to Dresden, where he earned his living as a cardboard box manufacturer. At TeBe, however, he remains active in the club for a long time.

Hermann Horwitz was born on 27.12.1885 in Weißenburgerstr. 64 (Prenzlauer Berg, today Kollwitzstr. 57) as one of six children of the married couple Adelheide and Isidor Horwitz. After graduating from the Sophien-Realgymnasium in Weinmeisterstraße in 1904, he joined the Berlin Sports Club the following year. Horwitz also soon began studying medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelm University. During World War I he served as a field doctor and was awarded the Iron Cross. After the war he finished his studies.

The Jewish cattle and horse dealer Ascher Weis built the house. Since 1887 it housed not only the office of the sheriff, the council chamber, the local jail and the fire department fire engine magazine. In the attic there was a rented apartment, which was occupied by the Kusiel family, one of the last Jewish families in Hochberg, from 1892 to 1905. Salomon Kusiel and Fanny Kusiel lived here with their three children Alice, Peppi and Siegfried. Salomon Kusiel died in exile in the Netherlands in 1940. Fanny Kusiel was murdered in the Sobibor concentration camp in 1943.

Hermann Hirschberg's home and place of work

• Hermann (Hirsch) Hirschberg was born in Schwetz on March 20, 1822. A circumcision certificate issued by the Jewish community of Schwetz in 1848 states that he was circumcised in the synagogue after his birth in accordance with the "Mosaic Law."  He became a master furrier like his father Lipman Hirschberg. A certificate issued in Neuchâtel in 1850 confirms that he passed the master's examination.
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• He married Ernestine Levy in the first marriage and after her death Sara Rosenthal in the second marriage.