Manufakturwarengeschäft Gustav und Emil Hirsch
In Warin the Jewish Hirsch family ran the drapery and fashion goods firm Gustav Hirsch at Breite Straße 137 [1][2]. On 16 November 1915 the opening of a new building for the house Breite Straße 137 was announced [1]. On 2 February 1926 the district court of Warin heard a case on averting bankruptcy proceedings against the firm Gustav Hirsch, and at the end of 1927 the firm was still advertising gift goods [1]. According to Radschuck the businesses owned by Jews of Warin were given up in the 1920s because of the owners' age or death and did not pass back into Jewish hands [2]. An "Aryanization" of this firm after 1933 is, however, not documented [2].
The family and the house Breite Straße 137
The business Gustav Hirsch stood at Breite Straße 137, which is today called Karl-Liebknecht-Platz and where the house carries the number 20 [2]. the family tree database lists Gustav (Josua) Hirsch, who was born in 1823 in Bützow, as a merchant in Warin, and in the census list of 1890 he appears as merchant and owner at Breite Straße 137 [3]. His son Emil Hirsch, born in 1854 in Warin, is recorded there as a merchant in the drapery business with his father [3]. According to the census lists of 1900 the adult siblings Julius, Emma, Bertha, Emil, Iwan, Pauline and Adolf lived together in this house, and in the list of 1919 Emma, Emil and Pauline form one household at Breite Straße 137, which included two apprentices and a milliner [3].
On 30 December 1911 the "Wariner Zeitung" names "G. Hirsch" as a member of the discount savings association among the suppliers of drapery and fashion goods [1]. On 16 November 1915 it reports that the new building of the firm Gustav Hirsch (drapery and fashion goods) was about to open, the house, in the German style of the time, convincingly combining business premises and dwelling [1]. On 4 February 1924 a joint discount advertisement appeared from the Warin branch of the Reich Association of Textile Retailers, in which the firm Gustav Hirsch and Moritz Seligson took part [1].
The course of the firm can thus be summarised from the sources as follows: on 30 December 1911 "G. Hirsch" is named as a member of the discount savings association [1], and on 16 November 1915 the opening of the new building of the firm Gustav Hirsch is announced [1]. On 5 July 1920 the merchant Emil Hirsch died, aged 65 [2], and on 4 February 1924 the joint discount advertisement with Moritz Seligson appeared [1]. On 2 February 1926 the district court of Warin heard a case on averting bankruptcy proceedings against the firm Gustav Hirsch, whose owner was Emma Hirsch [1]. On 19 April 1927 the unmarried Emma Hirsch died, aged 65 [2], and at the end of December 1927 Christmas advertisements for gift goods from "G. Hirsch" finally appeared [1].
The outcome of the proceedings of 1926 is not recorded. Who ran the business after the death of Emma Hirsch in April 1927 is not shown by the sources, and the advertisements of December 1927 are the last known trace of the firm [1], so that the end of the firm after December 1927 is not documented. As the reason for the end of the businesses owned by Jews in Warin Radschuck gives the owners' age or death [2], and the description in the project database follows him in this, but for the firm Gustav Hirsch the proceedings of 1926 stand against it.
The community and the years after 1933
On 27 September 1922 the last head of the community, Moritz Seligson, applied for the dissolution of the Jewish community of Warin, whose remaining members included Emma Hirsch and the widow Pauline Salomon, née Hirsch. Pauline Salomon, who was born on 11 November 1872 in Warin, lived at Breite Straße 137 [2][3]. According to Radschuck there were no Jewish businesses left in Warin at the time of the pogrom night, and SA and SS men desecrated the Jewish cemetery [2]. According to Radschuck Pauline Salomon was dragged away and perished in the Theresienstadt concentration camp [2]. Citing an entry of the memorial book of the Federal Archives, the family tree gives custody in Neustrelitz from 11 to 12 November 1942, Berlin until 20 November 1942, then Theresienstadt and on 16 May 1944 Auschwitz [3]. Radschuck (Theresienstadt) and the memorial-book entry (Auschwitz), however, contradict each other on the place of her death, which is therefore not settled. The deportation list also names Schwerin (Schlachterstraße 3, with her sister-in-law Blanka Hirsch) as her last residence and the 75th transport of the elderly of 20 November 1942 [4], so that her residence in 1942 also appears unsettled.