This is a photo of Nussbaum’s Jewelry store (at least of the storefront as it looked in 1991). It was my father’s family business. As a little boy he was introduced to the watch business and plans were someday he would inherit and run it. Lots of people had plans for their stores in New York City too, when March 2020 began.
Nussbaum’s jewelry store was closed on Friday, September 1, 1939, by fascists, taken first by Hitler and then by his twin Stalin. And the entire family except for my father were sent to the gas chambers. My father survived alone because he unlike the rest of the family was in the part of Poland that Stalin took over. But it is only “temporarily” closed. Like all those stores and restaurants in New York City that were forced to close on March 15, 2020, and that still have ‘"temporarily closed” signs in their windows.