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A person who continued to do business with Jews could count on being exposed to public scorn, in this case three men from Burghaun.

In 1935 after the Jewish livestock market in Fulda had been raided

by a horde of Nazis it was closed down by the police, which greatly endangered the livelihood of the Jewish livestock dealers. Father Abraham hardly dared to do business publicly, it was just too dangerous for himself and his customers. In this situation Abraham’s ‘Christian’ neighbor Christian Rehberg came to help: Abraham

would visit his customers and shake hands on the deal, Christian would move the cattle along the road and then keep them in his own cow shed. This worked rather well for some time until the Nazis closed down all Jewish businesses thus leaving the Jewish families with no income at all.