The address book of the town of Nordhausen from 1903 contains the following entries: Blumenthal, Martin, manufacturer of woolen goods, Bahnhofstr.7 - Blumenthal, Louis, merchant, partner in the Martin Blumenthal company, Uferstr.9.In the 1930 population register of Nordhausen a. H. with the districts of Grafschaft Hohenstein and Ilfeld the following entry can be found - Blumenthal Martin, Baumwoll- und Leinenwaren-Fabrikation und -Großhandlung, Bahnhofstr.15.

The roots of the " Weinkelterei - Weinkommision Hermann Levy, Landau " go back to the year 1891 - as can be read on a letter - invoice header of a list extract of the Weinkelterei - Weinkommoision from 1937. Hermann Levy's company had been operating a flour and country products business with a wine commission since 1901 and added the trade in wine in 1909. The Hermann Levy company were the brothers Hermann and Heinrich Levy, who started out very small in the wine trade. Wine tastings in the surrounding area and visits to customers - wine sales - were initially carried out by bicycle.

The Allgemeine Wohnungs-Anzeiger nebst Adreß- und Geschäftshandbuch für Berlin, dessen Umgebungen und Charlottenburg - Ausgabe 1868 contains the following entry: Mamroth Eduard, Bank. und Producten-Geschäft, Jägerstraße 27.  - Eduard Mamroth was born on December 3, 1820 in Poznan ( Posen ). He was married to Emma Pringsheim, born around 1825 in Poznan (Posen). The couple had seven children. -  Albert, 1847-1911, - Hugo, 1847-1905, - Toni, 1859-??, Ulla Ulrike, 1859-1905, - Therese, 1863-1942, - Robert, 1864-1927, - Rosa, 1878-1929.

On September 13, 1944, a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp was set up in Neugraben on Falkenbergsweg/Neugrabener Heideweg. The camp was home to 500 women, most of whom came from Czechoslovakia. They had been deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp via Theresienstadt. There the SS selected them for work in Hamburg. Their first station in Hamburg was the Dessauer Ufer satellite camp in the free port.

On November 10, 1947, a first remembrance ceremony for the victims of the Shoah and the official unveiling of the memorial stone took place at the New Jewish Cemetery in the presence of notable representatives of the City of Munich and the Board of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, as well as hundreds of members of the Jewish community.

Margarete "Grete" Gumpel was born on February 18, 1892. Her parents were Julius Gumpel, born on December 8, 1852 in Bernburg, and Auguste "Gustchen" Gumpel, née Glogowski, born on January 17, 1854 in Jarocin, Poland. Margarete Gumpel had five siblings - Bruno Gumpel, born on September 19, 1881 -  died in 1918 - Gertrud (Udchen) S., married name Reyersbach, born on November 14, 1882 in Berlin - died on April 14, 1942 in Weißenfels (committed suicide before the imminent deportation together with her  husband Siegfried Reyersbach).

Ernest Landau, a Viennese journalist liberated from one of the Death Marches near Tutzing on Lake Starnberg, founded what was then the only German-language Jewish weekly newspaper, the “Neue Welt. Eine Wochenschrift der befreiten Juden” (New World: A Weekly of the Liberated Jews) in fall 1947. With a circulation of around 4,000, the paper was aimed to be a news and information bulletin for Jewish communities in Bavaria. After just one year, the Neue Welt had to cease publication due to a lack of a German readership.

In April 1946, the Jewish Committee Munich opened the first kosher kitchen in the city in Victor-Scheffel-Strasse. As up to 8,000 Jews were living in Munich, what it could produce was not enough by any means. Additional kitchens were opened so that, at times, five such canteens existed in the municipal area: in Möhlstrasse, Frauenstrasse, and Zweibrückenstrasse, as well as in Hauptstrasse, as it was then called, in the suburb of Feldmoching.

The approach taken by the strictly Orthodox association Agudas Yisroel (also Agudat Yisrael, “Union of Israel”), founded in Poland in 1912, was that it would not be the political movement of Zionism that would lead the “Jewish people to salvation,” but only the strict observance of the commandments in the Torah. After the Shoah, the organization relativized this position and participated in building up the Jewish national community, while strongly maintaining that halakhah, the Jewish religious law, should decide the affairs of the State of Israel.

Hashomer Hatzair (Heb. the Young Guard) is a left-Zionist youth movement founded in Galicia in 1913 which significantly influenced the kibbutz movement and sent young men and women to Palestine as chaluzim (Heb. pioneers) shortly after World War II. Members of the association participated as partisans and ghetto fighters in the resistance against the Nazi regime. After 1945, Hashomer Hazair smuggled thousands of Jewish children and youths from Eastern Europe to DP camps. From fall 1947 until January 1949, the movement published the Yiddish-language newspaper Oyf der vakh (Yid.