Leon Fichmann
Leon Leib Fichmann was born in Czernowitz in what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire, on February 2, 1884. He took part in the First World War. Leon Fichmann was a businessman, running several cigar stores in Berlin. In 1939 he lived at Althofstraße 1 in Berlin-Steglitz. His daughter Ingeborg managed to escape to England and his daughter Ruth fled to British-mandated Palestine. His 1918 marriage to Charlotte Sydow was divorced on July 31, 1942, presumably by mutual agreement. However, the divorce meant Leon Fichmann lost the protection from deportation that his marriage to a non-Jewish woman had granted him.
Leon Fichmann worked as a brush binder for Otto Weidt in 1941. He was presumably entirely blind as a result of an eye condition. His last address before his deportation was the Jewish Community home at Auguststraße 16. Leon Fichmann was deported along with four other men and one woman employed in the workshop for the blind on December 9, 1942. They were taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, and murdered there.