Sue and her husband were immensely grateful to be permitted to book round the former family apartment at the time of their visit to Berlin with Peter and Reike Nash in June 2001 by Dr H Lazar a surgeon, who lived there at the time. Indeed, Dr Lazar was intrigued to learn more of the apartment’s history

The Schlossstrasse side of the L-sgaped building in 2001 remains almost exactly as it had been, still very recognizable from the family photographs taken probably in 1937, just before it was sold.

The family was still living at the Nachodstrasse 7 address in June 1906, awating the completion of the construction of the five story block in the main street of Steglitz, on the corner of Schlossstrasse 97/Kelerstrasse 1, being built for Moritz. It would be his third large department store in Berlin; the previous one had been in the affluent suburb of Charlottenburg close by.

Kaufhaus Feidt was a department store, dealing in clothes and hats, linens and fabrics, household goods and furnishings and much else besides.

I have been looking through Ancestry's copious record collection for Sidney Kessler, primarily his travel records to and from San Juan and St. Thomas. There are also good census records of not only his married family but also his birth family, including this 1900 U.S. census that shows his family residence when he was three years of age.