Aron Nussbaum

Oscar Aron Nussbaum was born on 9 July 1892 in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, then Galicia.

In 1915 he moved to Berlin, where he started working in the rag trade. He was self- educated and had a particular gift for numbers, mathematics, and business. In time, he eventually became a successful clothing manufacturer in partnership with his brother-in-law Jacob Neumarkt.

He married Bertha on 7th August 1918  in Rozwadow. Bertha had  been born Ester Breindel in Rozwadow, Poland. Their sons Paul and Leo were born in 1920 and 1923. The family lived at Lothringer Straße 34/35 (today Torstraße 89). They attended the Adass Yisroel synagogue in Artilleriestraße (now Tucholskystraße).

At the beginning of 1934, with the onset of Nazi terror. Aron Nussbaum decided to leave Germany with his  family. After travelling to London, the family boarded a ship in Southampton and travelled to Cape Town in South Africa. From Cape Town, they travelled by train to Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, where they settled and built a new life. Of his siblings, his brother, Joseph Nussbaum went to New York; his sister Malke went to Israel (then Palestine) and his oldest brother, Motali, sadly chose to stay in Berlin and perished in Dachau concentration camp.

During his years in Bulawayo, Oscar started a successful dress shop which he ran with Bertha. He also became involved in the property market,  buying an existing block of apartments and by 1953, had built a completely new block of apartments.

Aron Nussbaum died on  January 7th, 1973, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, survived by his wife Bertha, his sons Paul and Leon, his daughters-in law Olga and Becky and his six grandchildren, Mark, Barbara, Clive, Naomi, Janet and Judy.