User:Aebarschall/Arthur Salomonsohn

Arthur Salomonsohn is, I believe, the name of my great uncle. What I know of him is from oral history in my family. The Salomonsohns (later Solmssen) and Mendelsohns were the great German Jewish banking families, and intermarried. Arthur lived in a very impressive home on a private island in a lake in Berlin. His home was confiscated by Hitler, and Hitler lived there during the war.

My second cousin, also called Arthur Solmssen, wrote a fictional book called A Princess in Berlin based family stories of the Solmssen and Mendelsohn families.

I had heard that another second cousin, Peter Solmssen, was writing a family history, but I'm not sure he ever finished.

The Salomonsohns and Mendelsohns were important in the history of the Holocaust, because their wealth was one of the pretexts that Hitler used in attacking Jews in general. I'm concerned that information about these families has been lost.

I'm hoping that someone who knows more is going to come in here and supplement this.