On December 26, 1940, 1581 Jews, mainly from Austria and Germany, arrived in Mauritius - deported by the British Mandate from Palestine, which they had finally reached after fleeing from Europe under great hardship. They were immediately sent to an internment camp in Beau Bassin, men and women strictly separated and in poor hygienic conditions. Typhus, malaria, polio, more than 50 people died in the first year in Mauritius. The survivors were interned here until the end of the war, without charge, with no prospect of an end to their imprisonment.

The Israelite reformatory in Repzin was founded in 1901 in the castle of the Pomeranian village of Repzin (now Rzepczyno, Poland). Financed by the Berlin merchant Eugen Rosenstiel and under the auspices of the German-Israelite Community Association, it was intended to provide a denominational care facility for young boys from all over the German Reich. The young people mostly came there by court order or on the initiative of their parents; they were between around six and twenty-one years old and ranged from „difficult“ children to those who had already become delinquents.

Paul Hermann Wallach and Philipp F. Wallach were the sons of Hermann Naphtali Joseph Wallach, born on March 16, 1838 in Lichtenau and Henriette Wallach, née Stern, born on February 6, 1842 in Soest. Paul Hermann Wallach was born on February 7, 1867 in G rlitz. He was married to Gertrude Wallach, née Rosenbaum, born on September 30, 1879 in Berlin. The couple had a son, Ernst, born in 1910, who may have been the recipient of the letter. - Philipp F. Wallach was born in G rlitz on March 18, 1878. He was married to Hanna Wallach, née Jordan, born on October 15, 1895 in Dresden.

The Penang Jewish Cemetery was established in 1805 and is considered the oldest Jewish cemetery in Southeast Asia. There are around 107 tombs here, the oldest tombstone dating back to 1835 and the youngest tombstone to 2011. Most of the tombs are in the shape of a triangular coffin with a domed lid. The cemetery is well maintained and well preserved.

Some gravestones bear names that indicate a German origin, e.g. Regina Valeria Eisenberg, Rosa Grütz or Wolf Horn (see also German Jews in Penang in More than Merchants, p. 33).

Birthplace of the Jewish-Austrian nuclear physicist and pioneer of radiochemistry Lise Meitner (born on November 7, 1878 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, died on October 27, 1968 in Cambridge, UK).

In the address book of the city of Berlin 1912 the following entry can be found: Wallach Ernst, Kaufmann,W30, Habsburgerstr.2 II. The following entry can be found in the 1929/1930 edition of the Jüdisches Adressbuch für Gross-Berlin: Wallach Eva, W 30 Habsburger Straße 2. - Ernst Wallach was born on August 29, 1864 in Görlitz. His parents were Hermann Naphtali Joseph Wallach, born on March 16, 1838 in Lichtenau, and Henriette Stern, born on February 6, 1842 in Soest.

In Adolph Lehmann's allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger : nebst Handels- u. Gewerbe-Adressbuch für d.k.k. Reichshaupt- u. Residenzstadt from the year 1864 contains the following entry: Abeles Leopold, Flachsgarn-, Baumwoll- und Leinwaren-Fabrik, Salzthorg. 1. - 1878 contains the following entry: Abeles Leopold, k. R., Hdls.- Ger.- Beis., Baumwollwarenfabrik, Bes. d. r. gld. Med. am  B. d. Stan.-O., F... Werderthorg. 17 - 1900 then Leopold Abeles & Söhne, k.k. priv. Spinn- und Webwaren-Fabrik, in Rothkostelez Ndlge. Neuthorg. 16, Zelinkag.

Henryk, called Henios ( Heinrich ) Rabinowicz was born in Warsaw on August 27, 1872. His parents were the businessman and bank procurator David Rabinowicz (1830-1907) and his wife Regina Studencka (1862-1918). Henryk ( Heinrich ) was the youngest of six children.  Before he began his studies at the Royal Technical University of Hanover and the Braunschweig Technical University, he did two years of military service in the Russian army at the age of nineteen. Only then did he receive permission to leave for Germany.

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in the house at Bahnhofstra e 20 in Ulm as the first-born child of his Jewish parents, Hermann Einstein and Pauline Einstein (née Koch).
 

&nbspIn April 1929, Einstein wrote about his birthplace in a letter to Carlos Erlanger, the son of the owner of the house at the time: „For being born, the house is quite nice; for on this occasion one does not yet have such great aesthetic needs, but one first fills one's loved ones without worrying much about reasons and circumstances.