Herschelstraße 31, Hannover, Historic Jewish residence in Mitte, Germany

Herschelstraße 31 is a five-story brick building with a main section and two side wings in central Hannover. Commercial spaces occupy the ground floor, while the upper levels contain residential apartments arranged along corridors.

The property passed to Theodor Borchers in 1899 and later belonged to toy merchant Moritz Klompus. From September 1941 the Nazi "Aktion Lauterbacher" turned it into one of 16 so-called "Judenhäuser" in Hannover, holding about 70 people at first and some 150 by December 1941. The building was destroyed in the air raid of 8–9 October 1943; a postwar new building now houses the SoVD.

The building became one of 16 so-called "Judenhäuser" in Hannover after Gauleiter Hartmann Lauterbacher's September 1941 "Aktion Lauterbacher". About 70 Jews from other private flats were moved in, rising to some 150 by December 1941. Norbert Prager, later chairman of the Jewish Community of Hannover, shared a room with seven other men. A memorial plaque was installed on the SoVD office facade in 2024.

The site is now a post-war new building occupied by the SoVD Landesverband Niedersachsen; the offices are not open to visitors. A memorial plaque was mounted on the facade in 2024 and can be read from the street. The building stands in the Mitte district, near the Hauptbahnhof.

The building was destroyed in the air raids of 8–9 October 1943; a photograph in the Historisches Museum Hannover shows the ruin, with the surviving letters "H. ITTE" of Heinrich Ritter's basketware shop visible above the gutted ground floor. The forced residents escaped onto the burning street and were left homeless for a short time.