Chaim Horn
Chaim Horn was born in Piotrków Trybunalski in Poland on July 10, 1902. He moved to Brandenburg an der Havel around 1920, and married Machla Stanger there in 1925. The couple owned the Brandenburger Bürsten-Industrie brush factory. Their son Max was born in 1926, their daughter Ruth in 1930. They had to sell their factory for much less than it was worth in 1939. The family’s attempts to emigrate failed and they moved to Berlin.
The father Chaim ran the dressing shop at Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind, where bristles and horsehair were processed. His son Max was employed in the workshop as an apprentice. The Horn family went underground at the beginning of 1943. Otto Weidt let them hide in a windowless room in the workshop. The door was concealed by a wardrobe. In early October 1943, the Gestapo learned of the hiding place through an informer. Chaim, Machla, Max, and Ruth Horn were arrested during a raid on the workshop premises. They were deported on October 14, 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and murdered there.