Philipp and Hedwig Kochmann (née Fromm) moved into this 3-room apartment before 1939. In Hedwig Kochmann’s declaration of assets of 1943, she stated she had four subtenants: Dora Fromm, Mirel Liebe, Hertha and Ellen Ruth Bachheimer. Dora Fromm was likely related to Hedwig Kochmann as she did not pay any rent. It is possible she moved in after Philipp Kochmann’s death in October 1942. Nothing is known of Mirel Liebe. Since she was not deported from Berlin until April 1, 1944, it is likely that she lived in hiding for a while.

Mother and daughter Hertha and Ellen Ruth Bachheimer moved into the building in December 1941. They shared one room. Their previous apartment at Droysenstraße 11 was confiscated by the General Building Inspector’s office after they had moved out – presumably to make it available to non-Jewish tenants. Yet in April 1943 Hertha Bachenheimer was charged RM 95.40 for the apartment’s renovation.

Sisters Anna and Helene Pindikowski had lived in the building for some years before 1939. In December 1939 Käthe Becker moved in with them as a subtenant. Leo and Selma Anker lived in another room of the apartment. Anna Pindikowski died in November 1941. The other residents of the apartment were deported in early 1943 and murdered.

The David family’s life in compulsory accommodation is well documented. Daughter Inge Borck (née David) managed to go into hiding before her deportation was due and survived in Berlin. Later, she gave extensive interviews about her life. Inge Borck moved into this apartment with four rooms and a maid’s chamber with her parents Martin and Paula David in 1941. Her parents occupied one room and Inge had the maid’s chamber. She was 19 at the time.

Mr and Mrs Vandewart moved in to a 4.5-room apartment on July 1, 1936. In their declaration of assets, they stated they had six subtenants. It is likely the three couples – the Vandewarts, the Philipps, and the Schusters – occupied one room each. The fourth room was rented out to Ernestine Daniel. Johanna Schneider lived in the maid’s chamber. She is mentioned in the Vandewarts’ declaration of assets but no further information on her exists. All the other residents of the apartment were deported; none of them survived.

Months after Mr and Mrs Vandewart were deported, the landlord, a lawyer, claimed money from their confiscated assets to renovate the apartment.

Dr. Rudolf Goldstein and Frieda Goldstein lived voluntarily in their apartment. They had moved into the building before 1939. They did not have any subtenants. The Nazis categorized the Goldsteins and their children Klaus and Lisa as “of mixed race (first degree)”. The fathers of Rudolf and Frieda were both considered Jewish and their mothers were both non-Jewish. Rudolf Goldstein had been baptized a Protestant and started his career as a lawyer and notary in 1925. He was made to perform forced labor from June 1944 until the end of the war. Evidently the Berlin Jewish Community’s housing advice agency did not allocate the Goldstein family any subtenants.

Kurt and Marga Glockmann also lived voluntarily in their apartment. The couple had a “mixed-race marriage”: Kurt Glockmann was not Jewish; his wife Marga Glockmann was Jewish. Their son Hans Peter Glockmann was therefore categorized as “of mixed race (first degree)”. Marga Glockmann worked from 1936 to 1940 in the Reich Association of Jews’ personnel department, and continued to work there later as a volunteer. When the number of deportations – not only across Berlin but also in the building – suddenly increased in fall 1942, the Glockmanns moved out to their weekend bungalow in Falkensee. The winter there was very hard as there was no heating. The situation left Marga Glockmann, who was already weakened by the psychological stress of the previous years, with physical and mental illnesses which persisted after 1945.