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The Cigar Factory of Isay Rottenberg - The Hidden History of a Jewish Entrepreneur in Nazi Germany (Paperback)
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The Cigar Factory of Isay Rottenberg - The Hidden History of a Jewish Entrepreneur in Nazi Germany (Paperback)
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In 1932, Isay Rottenberg, a Jewish paper merchant, bought a cigar
factory in Germany: Deutsche Zigarren-Werke. When his competitors,
supported by Nazi authorities, tried to shut it down, the
headstrong entrepreneur refused to give up the fight. Isay
Rottenberg was born into a large Jewish family in Russian Poland in
1889 and grew up in Lodz. He left for Berlin at the age of eighteen
to escape military service, moving again in 1917 to Amsterdam on
the occasion of his marriage. In 1932 he moved to Germany to take
over a bankrupt cigar factory. With newfangled American technology,
it was the most modern at the time. The energetic and ambitious
Rottenberg was certain he could bring it back to life, and with
newly hired staff of 670 workers, the cigar factory was soon back
in business. Six months later, Hitler came to power and the Nazi
government forbade the use of machines in the cigar industry so
that traditional hand-rollers could be re-employed. That was when
the real struggle began. More than six hundred qualified machine
workers and engineers would lose their jobs if the factory had to
close down. Supported by the local authorities he managed to keep
the factory going, but in 1935 he was imprisoned following
accusations of fraud. The factory was expropriated by the Deutsche
Bank. When he was released six months later thanks to the efforts
of the Dutch consul, he brought a lawsuit of his own. His fight for
rehabilitation and restitution of his property would continue until
Kristallnacht in 1938. The Cigar Factory of Isay Rottenberg is
written by two of Rottenberg's granddaughters, who knew little of
their grandfather's past growing up in Amsterdam until a call for
claims for stolen or confiscated property started them on a journey
of discovery.
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