The store, one of the largest in Timișoara, was located in Traian Square, in a beautiful building from 1860, owned by the Duschnitz family.

The first family member we know of was named Salamon Duschnitz (1835-1910). In 1909, his sons, László / Ladislau and Miksa / Maximilian, owned two shops in Trajan's Square. László was married to Katharina, b. Popper, originally from Cluj, with whom he had two daughters, Alice, born in 1897, and Myriam. Miksa, whose portrait appears in the community leadership album of the Jewish year 5695 (September 1934-September 1935), was married to Leontina, born Schwartz.

László, born in 1865, was buried in 1919 in the Jewish cemetery. Between 1912 and 1915, his daughter Alice corresponded with Endre Ady, a classic of Hungarian literature. The poet's messages, already seriously ill at the age of 35, are full of tenderness and sweetness towards the 15-year-old girl he considers a "little girl", a younger sister. Alice got married and moved to Budapest.

After László Duschnitz's death in 1919, his widow moved to Budapest with her daughter. In 1944, the two women, 73-74-year-old Katharina and Alice, 46-47, were deported and perished at Auschwitz.

How lucky were the Jews of Timișoara to be in a city spared the horror of the Holocaust!