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on 10 November 1938, during which thousands of Jewish homes and businesses were ransacked or set alight, though firemen were able to put out the blaze in this department store. Later that year the company was handed over by the Nazis to the non-Jewish Emil Köster AG, and in 1939 it reopened as
230:, a country which did not provide reparations to Jews for Nazi-era forced take-overs of their businesses. Thus the Israel family, the previous owners, began to receive compensation for their financial losses only after the 62:) was a department store in Berlin. The business was started in 1815 by Nathan Israel as a small second-hand store in the Molkenmarkt. By 1925, it employed over 2,000 people and was a member of the 153:, its "Aryanization" complete, according to the Israel family's papers. The family helped most of the store's Jewish employees, especially their children, leave Germany before the war began. 78:
in 1938 and then handed over to a non-Jewish family by the Nazis. The descendants of the original owners began to receive compensation for their losses after the fall of the
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The home of Richard Israel, son of Moritz Israel, a previous partner in the store, was also taken by the Nazis.
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but in 1993 it was repossessed by the German government and returned to descendants of the Israel family.
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outside the store on April 1, 1933, holding signs: "Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!" (
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Institute, Center for Jewish History, retrieved September 6, 2006.
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in 1989. The last owner and manager from the Israel family,
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The building was ransacked and set on fire during the
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Kaufhaus Nathan Israel


Berlin Stock Exchange
Jews
Nazi Party
Kristallnacht
Berlin Wall
Wilfrid Israel
Kindertransport

Nazi SA paramilitaries
Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
Kristallnacht
Nazi SA paramilitaries
Alexanderplatz
Kristallnacht
Schloss Schulzendorf
East Berlin
World War II
Wilfrid Israel
England
Balliol College, Oxford
Stafford Cripps
Britain
Leslie Howard
BOAC Flight 777
Luftwaffe
Bay of Biscay
bombing of Berlin in World War II

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