International Travelling Exhibition

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Remembrance Book for the prisoners
of Dachau concentration camp

• * 16.7.1909 as Martin Ansbacher in Leutershausen/Mittelfranken (D)
• Businessman
• 1932 opening of a textile business in Landshut with his cousin, Wilhelm Ansbacher

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• 11.11.1938 Arrested during the terror of the "Reichskristallnacht" and sent with over 10,000 other Jewish prisoners to Dachau Concentration Camp. Most of the prisoners were released within a few months of their arrest.

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• 1939 Emigration to Scotland
• Production manager of an army repair shop
• Beate Einstein (1946), two sons
• 1948 British citizenship and name change
• 1958 Gründung der Textilfabrik MABAN für Strickwaren, Hüte, Schals
• † 4.8.2003

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• Remembrance Book Biography Author (2001): Christine Schindlbeck (* 1982), student, Landshut (D)

From a business perspective, Martin and Wilhelm were quite successful. Their profits steadily increased until the closure of their textile firm in 1935 or 1936, after the Nazis blocked the renewal of the building lease. Despite the unlikelihood of a Jewish businessman finding an available building to rent, the Ansbacher cousins began the search for a new location. They found non-occupied rooms at Isargestade 728. Despite opposing pressure from the National Socialists, the building owner agreed to offer the Ansbachers a lease.

A Nazi trustee wanted to purchase the house at 38 Seligenthalerstrasse, where the Ansbacher family was living. Gustav and Fritz Ansbacher had to consent to the sale. They were promised that if they agreed to sell the house, Martin and Wilhelm Ansbacher would be released from the concentration camp. Through this exchange, the cousins were released in January 1939.