Biographies of Jewish tradespeople
In the night from November 9 to November 10, 1938, the National Socialists set fire to the synagogue in Spandau as well, destroyed and plundered Jewish shops, mistreated Jewish Spandauers and put them in concentration camps.
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Some were still able to flee Spandau and Germany after the pogrom night, but many others were murdered in the concentration camps, for example the Stein family from Siemensstadt. The department store owner Adolf Stein and his son Erwin were severely maltreated in the pogrom night and their business plundered. Adolf died shortly afterwards as a result of the abuse, and Erwin was able to flee to Ecuador in 1939. Adolf's wife Rosalie survived the concentration camp, their daughter Luise was murdered in Auschwitz.
Lina Steffen, owner of a tobacco shop in Moritzstraße, which was also destroyed on Pogrom Night, was also deprived of her livelihood. In 1944 she was deported to Theresienstadt. She was able to survive.
