Moses Koller

Moses Koller was born on 7 March 1883 in Rudnik in Upper Silesia.
On 3 March 1943, he was deported with the 33rd Osttransport from Berlin to Auschwitz and murdered there.
Anna Koller, née Bendiner, was born on 2 March 1890 in Berlin.
On 6 March 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz with the 35th Osttransport and murdered there.
Anna and Moses Koller lived at Calvinstraße 5 (Tiergarten) from 1916 until they had to move in 1940.
Moses Koller ran a grocery shop on the ground floor of the building, where he sold food and luxury goods as well as tobacco products. The shop was founded in 1916 and expropriated by the Nazis in 1940.
Anna and Moses had to leave their flat at Calvinstasse 5 in 1940, and Moses Koller did forced labour at the Rietz company in Charlottenburg from 1940 until his deportation to Auschwitz.
Unfortunately, not much is known about Anna and Moses Koller. They were devout Jews who ate a kosher diet and observed the Sabbath. They had two daughters, Meta and Ruth, who both left Germany in the mid-1930s.
The elder daughter Meta was born on 11 January 1912 and emigrated to Palestine in 1933. She changed her name to Michal, because Meta means "she is dead" in Hebrew.
In 1934 she applied for and received a document allowing her parents to leave Germany for Palestine. She returned to Germany in 1936 with a Palestinian passport and asked Anna and Moses to come to Palestine, which they did not do. They did not want to be a burden to their daughter or to leave their homeland. They mistakenly expected the Nazi regime to pass.
In Palestine, Michal met her future husband Franz Gad Kehr from Kaiserslautern. They had two daughters, Dorit Kehr and Gabriela Lewy née Kehr. In 1958, the family emigrated to the USA. Dorit has one daughter and Gabriela has three children and six grandchildren.
Michal died in 2002, twenty years before the Stolpersteine were laid. The loss of her parents in the Holocaust was so traumatic for her that she never spoke about it and never told her children that her parents had been killed in Auschwitz.
The younger daughter of Moses and Anna, Ruth Regina Koller, was born on 27 December 1919. She fled to London in the 1930s, where she became a nanny. Later she moved to the USA to New York with the family she was employed by and worked for them until the children were grown. Ruth never married, had no children and died on 5 October 1976.
Anna Koller had a large family in Germany. Of the Bendiners, some fled Nazi Germany to various countries such as Shanghai, Australia, Argentina and Canada. We know nothing about Moses' family