A. Wertheim, GmbH, Berlin

The Wertheim Department Store group was among the largest and most distinguished Jewish department stores in pre-Hitler Germany. Wertheim owned a number of stores, including the famous Wertheim Department Store at Leipziger Platz in Berlin. Three Wertheim brothers had majority ownership in the department stores. As early as 1933, Jewish department stores became the focus of Nazi boycotts and the Wertheim companies were eventually “aryanized.” The company that acquired the Wertheim companies after the war went on to become one of Germany’s most successful retailers, and was acquired in 1993 by Karstadt. For more information, please see: http://www.claimscon.org/our-work/successor/wertheim/. Accessed 30 May 2021.