Justin Zeilberger
Justin Zeilberger lived and worked in Würzburg, Germany, as a master tailor during the early twentieth century. He was born on 17 July 1896. His tailoring business served a Jewish community that shaped the city’s civic life before the Second World War. He married Lilly, also known as Lea, née Keller, and they raised Ilse and Fred.
Zeilberger also took part in public life through the German Democratic Party during the Weimar Republic. In November 1938, Nazi persecution destroyed his shop and sent him to Buchenwald for nine weeks. After his release, the family was forced into Würzburg’s Jewish ghetto before deportation to Latvia in November 1941. Justin, Lilly, and Ilse were murdered during the Holocaust, while Fred survived five concentration camps and liberation in spring 1945. Fred later returned to Würzburg, emigrated to the United States in 1947, and documented the family’s experiences. The destroyed tailor shop remains a stark detail in a story of work, civic participation, persecution, and loss.
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