Rosa in Dahlem

Gerhard's father had died in 1928. Rosa had remained at the apartment with Gerhard but when Gerhard and Ilse married in 1933, it is thought that Rosa then moved to Dahlem.

Dahlem was and remains today a very desirable part of Berlin, the location of Berlin's Botanical Gardens, painted by Minna, and with many large and imposing houses. Rosa's detached property, with its pretty garden, also painted by Minna, was situated near the park in a tree-line road in walking distance of Steglitz and the Schlossstrasse. 

Danzig

Former name for the Polish city of Gdansk, it was a center of commerce and culture in the old German empire and an independent Free City after WWI. Absorbed into Poland after WWII

Return to the Kaufhaus in 2001

Sue and her husband were immensely grateful to be permitted to book round the former family apartment at the time of their visit to Berlin with Peter and Reike Nash in June 2001 by Dr H Lazar a surgeon, who lived there at the time. Indeed, Dr Lazar was intrigued to learn more of the apartment’s history

The Schlossstrasse side of the L-sgaped building in 2001 remains almost exactly as it had been, still very recognizable from the family photographs taken probably in 1937, just before it was sold.

The Kaufhuas Feidt opens in Steglitz in 1907

The family was still living at the Nachodstrasse 7 address in June 1906, awating the completion of the construction of the five story block in the main street of Steglitz, on the corner of Schlossstrasse 97/Kelerstrasse 1, being built for Moritz. It would be his third large department store in Berlin; the previous one had been in the affluent suburb of Charlottenburg close by.

Kaufhaus Feidt was a department store, dealing in clothes and hats, linens and fabrics, household goods and furnishings and much else besides.