Schneidergeschäft Benno Zoltobrodsky

The tailoring workshop of the master tailor Josef Zoltobrodsky in Schwerin was one of the businesses owned by Jews that National Socialists wrecked in the November pogrom of 1938 ^[1][2]. Josef Zoltobrodsky and his son Benno were arrested on 9 November 1938 and taken to the Neustrelitz prison ^[2][3], and the whole family finally fled to England on 30 November 1938 ^[1][2][3][4].

The master tailor and his workshop

Josef Zoltobrodsky was born on 15 July 1896, whereby the USHMM list gives "Irschork" as the birthplace, which is reproduced in this spelling because the place cannot be identified ^[2]. He was a master tailor and a member of the Jewish community, married and the father of three children, and the family lived at Gustavstraße 21, while the Stolpersteine lie at Severinstraße 21, although it remains open whether both names refer to the same street ^[1][2]. His wife Paula, née Latscha, was born in Zduńska Wola on 15 July 1896 ^[1][4]. The 2012 Claims Conference list also records, under number 111033, a master tailor's business of Josef Zoltobrodsky at Gustavstraße 21 ^[5].

The son Benno, who was known as "Ben Joseph", was born in Schwerin on 18 October 1920 and attended the elementary school in Amtstraße until Easter 1935. Then, from 1935 to 1937, he did a tailor's apprenticeship in the workshop of Hermann Rosenthal because no other apprenticeship was permitted, and afterwards he worked in his father's workshop ^[3].

November pogrom and flight

On 9 November 1938 father and son were arrested and taken to Neustrelitz, and the workshop was wrecked ^[2][3]. After their imprisonment the whole family managed to flee to England on 30 November 1938, whereby Josef Zoltobrodsky went to his brother ^[1][2][3][4]. All five members of the family survived, and Stolpersteine for them lie at Severinstraße 21, with the arrest on 9 November 1938 and the Neustrelitz prison noted for father and son ^[1].