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Christoph Kreutzmüller, Bjoern Weigel

Nissim Zacouto

Oriental Carpet Wholesaler and Miraculous Survivor

Translation: Charlotte Kreutzmüller
Language: English
64 pages, softcover
10 illustrations
ISBN: 978-3-942271-49-3
6.90 €

Jewish Miniatures Vol. 93B

Nissim Zacouto, scion of an an old Sephardic family, built up a respected wholesale carpet business in 1920s Berlin. After 1933, his Turkish nationality protected him from direct attack by the Nazis. Nevertheless faced with increasing harrassment and trade restrictions, he gradually relocated his business to Paris, finally emigrating in 1939. On France’s occupation, Zacouto went into hiding with his family and narrowly escaped deportation. Nissim Zacouto’s unusual and moving life story is introduced in a foreword by his son Fred Zacouto.

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Christoph Kreutzmüller

geboren 1968 in Bad Oeynhausen, langjähriger Mitarbeiter der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und der Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz. Seit 2015 Kurator der neuen Dauerausstellung im Jüdischen Museum Berlin. 

Bjoern Weigel

geboren 1980 in Berlin, ist Historiker und promoviert am Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der TU Berlin über die Vernichtung jüdischer Gewerbetätigkeit in Berliner Theaterunternehmen.

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