Family Bender

Paul Bender ran the Adler pharmacy at Ring 29. He and his wife Rosa had at least two sons, Heinz and Rudolf. Paul Bender was the first Jew who left Guttentag just after the Nazis came into power. In August 1933 he sold his building, pharamcy and the licenz for the pharmacy to the family Faber.

They paid 120.000 GM but only 25.000 RM were paid directly. The rest was secured by a mortgage with an interest rate of 5 % pa. The family Faber later said that interest and repayment were paid as agreed. In 1945 the remaing debts were 31.000 RM.

Read here the purchase agreement and
here the testimoney of Erich Faber

The family Faber filed for restitution. The Lastenausgleichsamt didn't question what they said about their payments. Especially it was not asked if Paul Bender got all payments to his free disposal. It was also not asked how the remaing debt was handled between the partiers. The Lastenausgleichsamt didn’t also try to find Paul Bender.

Read here the ruling.

Paul Bender and his family emigrated with his family to Haifa, Palestine, and founded there in February 1934 with a Partner (Ewald Schmidt) a company for im- and export and sale of drugs.

Read here the announcement of the opening, published in the Palestine Gazette.

In 1937 also Heinz was granted his pharmacy licenz.

Read here the announcement for the granted licenz, published in ther Palestine Gazette.

At the beginning of 1941 Paul Bender died.

Read here that Rosa Eisner filed a heir's certificate, published in the Palestine Gazette.

In 1942 Rosa Bender founded a new company together with Heinz and Rudolf, the Moriah pharmacy, located in Moriah Street, Haifa. Heinz became the CEO. In this year Rudolf was granted his Matriculation Examinations at St. Luke's School.

Read here the announcement of the founding of the Moriah pharmacy and
here the announcement of the Matriculation Examinations of Rudolf,
both published in the Palestine Gazette.

Rudolf renamed himself later to Rafael. He became a department head at the raffinerie in Haifa. He died in 1979 at a heart attack. His wife, a holocaust surviver wanted to proof the livinng standard in Germany but his husband was satisfied with his job in Haifa. The only son Efraim became a social scientist and because the job situation in Israel was so bad he studied also law. He also tried to live in Germany for one year. Today he is an advocat in Haifa. Heinz ran the pharmacy. He had to sons, Michael and Uri both are living in Haifa .

Paul Bender and his heirs didn't file for compensation.