The Gerzon fashion house (Modemagazijnen Gebroeders Gerzon N.V.) was founded in 1889 by the brothers Eduard GERZON (1862–1935) and Levie Lazarus (Lion) GERZON (1867–1929). The main store was located on Kalverstraat in Amsterdam and the company has several branches in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. When Gerzon fashion house was expropriated by the Nazis in 1941, it was headed by three Jewish men: Jules Eduard GERZON, Arthur MARX, and George HECHT. The head office of the company was located in a large building on the Singel in Amsterdam. All of Gerzon's Jewish employees were dismissed and around 300 of them did not survive the war. Julius Eduard GERZON managed to emigrate to Portugal in 1942 and died in a hospital in Lisbon in the end of that year. His mother and his son were murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp. After the WWII the fashion house was returned to the GERZON family, in 1957 they designed the uniform for KLM stewardesses. In 1971, the family registered a new company Charles F. Gerzon Holding B.V., that was described as a long-established "family business" operating 12 stores at Schiphol Airport. The CEO and owner of this new company was Philip GERZON, until he sold 100% of the company to LS Travel Retail (Lagardère) in 2014.