Residential Facility (Nursing Home, Orphanage, etc.)

The German-Israelitic Community Association (DIGB) in Steglitzer Strasse in Berlin founded a home for feeble-minded but educated children in 1907 to mark the silver wedding anniversary of the imperial couple. A new foundation was established for this purpose, the Wilhelm-Auguste-Victoria Foundation. The special thing about this home was that it was the only school that took in physically disabled Jewish children. Sally (Samuel) Bein was appointed head of the school. The Potsdam Department for Church and Education approved the home and school for 20 children on September 5, 1908.

The Jüdische Altenheim Gerlachstraße was confiscated by the National Socialists during the Second World War and used as a collection point for elderly and old Jews who were to be transported to concentration camps. 260 original residents and over 2000 elderly Jews were deported from here. In the late 1960s, the buildings that had not been destroyed by Allied bombs were demolished to make way for the GDR's House of Statistics.

Isidor Stern realized his late wife Olga's idea of a comfortable and enjoyable home for people from the middle class. In memory of Olga, the Olga Stern House was established in the spring of 1930 as a home for the elderly for Jewish people over 60 years of age. The house was located in a beautiful setting and had generously furnished rooms. There was a music room with a piano and a large garden. There the residents came together for common meetings. Through the proximity to nature and through intellectually stimulating activities, e.g.

The orphanage was founded in response to the pogroms against the Jewish population after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. In the course of this, the Berlin Relief Committee brought 39 Jewish boys aged 6 to 11 from Russia to Berlin in 1882. For their accommodation, a plot of land was purchased in Pankow at Berliner Strasse 121, which was occupied on October 22, 1882. Free places were filled with orphans from the Jewish community in Berlin.

SCHLOSSBERG 23 - HERE STANDED FROM 1893 THE 

German - ISRAELITIC CHILDREN'S HOME DIEZ

Dannie N. Heineman (1872-1962) was born in the USA to German-Jewish emigrants and remained an American citizen throughout his life. After his father's death, he and his mother returned to Germany and lived in their native Hanover from 1883. Heinemann graduated from the Technical University of Hanover as an electrical engineer, worked for AEG Berlin and other companies, and made a career as a manager for a large Belgian electrical corporation. His mother died in Hanover in 1927.

With the consolidation of the neo-orthodox Jewish community in Halberstadt, it undertook various conversion and new building projects after 1850: After the Klaussynagoge (1857/58), the Gemeindesynagoge (1879), the Gemeindemikwe (1891/92), the third cemetery (1895/96) and the school (1899), on December 22, 1912, the Jewish retirement home „Newe Menucha“ (Hebrew for the elderly) was opened. December 1912 in the Wilhelmstraße 15 - on the initiative of the families Baer and Meyer - also the Jewish old people's home „Newe Menucha“ (Hebrew „source of rest“) was inaugurated.

Since there were no homes for blind Jews until then and they therefore had no livelihood, Jewish wealthy people founded an institution for the blind at Wrangelstraße 6-7. From 1918, deaf Jews were also able to live in the institution. All lived there voluntarily, sheltered and self-determined.

Isaac Oppenheim, born in 1805 - died in 1872 laid down his Jewish first name after baptism and was henceforth called Julius Ernst Oppenheim. His father Salomon Oppenheim, married to Judith Bondy, was for many years one of the heads of the liberal German Israelite community in Hamburg and chairman of the Advance Institute, which was founded in 1816 as a branch of the Israelite Poorhouse. Julius Ernst Oppenheim was the founder of the parity Jewish-Christian Julius-Ernst-Oppenheim-Stift, which is supported by the Vaterstädtische Stiftung and still exists today.