Postwar Berlin

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"They were not able to move back into the former home, but they moved into an apartment near where they had lived. I believe the original structure was bombed. And I know that they were able to collect some of their original belongings they had left with non-Jewish friends, but much of their wealth and their holdings was gone.

My grandfather took employment with an American-administered Jewish relief agency and went back into baking. And most of his activity in the springtime was involved with baking matzahs for Passover. That was a major activity for him.

[He had not been a baker before he was a leather merchant], but his grandfather and father were. In fact Isaac Jacobi, his father, was a master baker."