Memorial Signs for the Schindler, Steinberg, Blumenberg, and Mandel families,
St.-Jakobs-Platz 18

Abraham Jitzach Schindler and his wife Necha moved to Munich from Tyczin in Poland in 1903. The couple lived with their seven children in Buttermelcherstraße, where Abraham Schindler ran a ritual grocery shop. In 1938, the business was forcibly liquidated by the National Socialists and Abraham Schindler was deported to Poland as part of the so-called ‘Poland Action’, but was able to return to Germany at his own expense. Back in Munich, he and his wife Necha had to move into a ‘Judenhaus’ in Ickstattstraße. Necha Schindler died at the end of 1940 and Abraham Schindler was deported by the Gestapo to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942, where he was murdered in May 1943.

Their daughter Judith (Yehudit) married Rabbi Eli (Eilzar) Steinberg from Berlin. The young couple moved to Berlin with their first two children Klara (Kela) and Issachar Dow in 1934. In 1942, the Gestapo deported the entire family and their other children Gitel, Simon, David and Chana to Riga, where they were presumably murdered three days later in the Biķernieki forest. The fate of Issachar Dow Steinberg is unknown.

Mina (Mirl) Blumenberg was the sister of Abraham Schindler. In 1906, she moved to Munich with her husband Michael (Mechl) Blumenberg and their children. After the National Socialists came to power, her two sons managed to emigrate. Like the Schindler couple, Mina and Michael Blumenberg were forced to move into the ‘Judenhaus’ in Ickstattstraße. Mina Blumenberg died in Munich in 1941. Michael Blumenberg was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto at the age of 86 and deported from there to the Treblinka extermination camp, where the SS murdered him in 1942.

Their daughter Eva (Chawa) worked as a shop assistant and married the merchant Leon (Arie Leib) Mandel in 1919. The couple moved to Westermühlstraße and had three children. Their two sons were able to emigrate to Palestine and the USA respectively.
After Eva and Leon Madel and their daughter Klara Chana were also forced to move into the ‘Judenhaus’ in Ickstattstraße, they fled to Poland in the summer of 1939. Klara Mandel married Majer Krippel there. Her fate, like that of her parents, is unknown.