Manufakturwaren und Konfektion Leiser Rosenzweig
The drapery and ready-to-wear shop of the merchant Leiser Rosenzweig at Rostocker Straße 24 in Teterow existed from at least 1927 to 1938 according to Diekmann and Stuhr [1]. Rosenzweig was expelled at the end of October 1938 in the "Polenaktion" (expulsion of Polish Jews) [2], and on 10 November 1938 the shop windows were smashed [2]. How the shop was wound up or taken over afterwards is not known.
The shop
The merchant Leiser Rosenzweig ran a drapery and ready-to-wear shop at Rostocker Straße 24, and address, trade and the period "at least 1927 to 1938" come from Diekmann (1998) and Stuhr (1986) [1]. According to the person database, which refers to the Gedenkbuch of the Bundesarchiv, Leiser Rosenzweig was born in Zamość in 1879 and was expelled to Poland on 28 October 1938 [3]. The online lexicon article expressly assigns the expulsion of the merchant Rosenzweig to the "Polenaktion" of the end of October 1938 [2], the reason given being that he originally came from Poland.
Boycott and pogrom
On 1 April 1933 SA men posted themselves in front of the three shops owned by Jews that were still left in the town, among them the Rosenzweig shop [2]. Customers nevertheless kept shopping in the shops owned by Jews later, according to the online lexicon especially the rural population [2]. In the early morning hours of 10 November 1938 the shop windows of the Rosenzweig shop were smashed, the displays were partly looted and the shop was wrecked [2].
The family and remembrance
the project database lists several persons named Rosenzweig born in Teterow, among them Elsa, who was born in 1911, who were murdered or are missing, but whether they belonged to the family of the merchant Leiser Rosenzweig is not known [3]. The student group of the Gymnasium Teterow that is researching the town's Jewish families in 2026 names the Rosenzweig family as the operators of a clothing shop in Rostocker Straße [4].