Kurzwarengeschäft Max Lewinsky, Inh. Rosa Lewinsky
Demmin, Luisenstraße
Rosa Lewinsky ran a haberdashery shop in Demmin that, according to indications, she is likely to have inherited in 1926 from her husband Max Lewinsky [1]. On the boycott day, 1 April 1933, this shop was also among those affected [2]. According to Vensky it was closed on 11 November 1938 [1]. There are, however, contradictory accounts of the fate of Rosa Lewinsky [3].
The shop
Max Lewinsky ran a haberdashery shop in Demmin which, after his death, which according to indications took place in 1926, his widow Rosa Lewinsky took over as owner. The year of death of Max Lewinsky is given differently, namely as 1926 (according to indications), as 1925 (gravestone inscription) and as 1905 (death date of the grave row) [1][3], whereby for these statements there is as yet nothing more than indications. The newspaper report mentions the haberdashery shop of Rosa Lewinsky among the shops affected by the boycott of 1933, although without giving an address [2].
The sources give the address differently. Named are Christinenstraße 22 (resident directory 1927), Luisenstraße, today's Breitscheidstraße (Vensky), and Luisenstraße 22 (Claims number 29847) [1][4]. The Claims Conference list records under this number a claim for the haberdashery shop of Rosa Lewinsky [4]. Since the sources contradict each other, the address of the firm cannot be settled at present.
The fate of Rosa Lewinsky
A 2016 correspondence with the Regionalmuseum Demmin mentions on the one hand an account according to which she was deported to Stettin in 1942 and on the other hand one according to which she emigrated, an emigration to South Africa being mentioned [3]. According to an article quoted in the correspondence of the Regionalmuseum, no Stolperstein is said to have been laid for Rosa Lewinsky [3]. Which of the two accounts is correct is not known.