Josef Heinrich Halberstein was born on  November 6, 1917 in Vienna. His parents were  the commercial clerk Osias  ( Oskar, Joshua or Yehoshua) and Chaya ( Rachel) Halberstein. Josef Heinrich had an older brother - Daniel, born on January 1, 1913. Josef Heinrich Halberstein studied at the Hochschule f r Welthandel in the winter semester 1935/36 and winter semester 1937/38. He took his last exams in June and October 1937. He was no longer able to attend the last semester of the diploma course.

Rosette Dörnbrack, née Blumann - * 01.06.1883 in Tostedt, † 07.05.1966 in Rotenburg/Wümme

Selma Blumann, born on July 16, 1882 in Tostedt, murdered on November 15, 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

The roots of the Joseph Baer & Co. antiquarian bookshop go back to 1785, when Abraham Joseph Baer, son of the book dealer Abraham Baer from Hanau, opened an antiquarian bookshop in the Niederlage in Frankfurt's Dominican monastery. 1792 he was already able to move his business to the better located Steingasse in Frankfurt's old town thanks to connections.

The memorial plaque at Passau's Innstadt cemetery commemorates Lydia Zach and all Passau Jews who were persecuted and murdered during the Nazi era. Lydia Zach survived the Nazi era unscathed thanks to the influence of her husband Josef Zach. The memorial plaque exists thanks to the initiative of Anna Rosmus.

Stanislaus Bender (1882-1975) came from Łódź, where he trained as a lithographer. He went to Paris and Munich to study art and settled in Munich in 1914 with his wife Jadwiga, née Freistadt, and daughter Marylka Bender. Jadwiga died of the Spanish flu in 1919. Stanislaus Bender worked as a commercial artist with his own studio, where Marylka also worked. Artistically, he explored his Jewish-Polish origins and painted genre scenes from the so-called shtetl. 

Today, Rosenbaum's Tabernacle is a reminder of the almost hundred-year history of the former Jewish community in Zell am Main. This was shaped above all by the work of Reb Mendel Rosenbaum and his family. The family established a Talmud school in Zell as well as a yeshiva, synagogue and mikvah at the Judenhof.

A small Jewish community existed in Zell am Main from the beginning of the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century. It was characterized by the activities of the Rosenbaum family, who established a Talmud school here. The Laubhütte (Sukka) in the Judenhof is the symbol of their work and has been open to the public since 2014.

Mendel Rosenbaum (1782-1868) is the best-known member of the former Jewish community in Zell am Main. He founded the Judenhof and enjoyed high recognition and political influence throughout Bavaria. 

Square in Karlshorst named after Johanna and Willy Brauer. A Jewish couple who lived in Karlshorst for many years and hid Jewish citizens during the Nazi era.

Birth dates according to the sign: born 1883 / died 1944 and born 1875 / died 1948

The following lived here:

Martha Hecht, née Rosen
* 05.05.1891 in Mönchengladbach, † 09.07.1943 in Sobibor
Martha Rosen married Walter Hecht in Berlin in 1920, their daughter Ursula was born in 1922. In June 1941, the small family was registered in Bussum in the Netherlands, from 1943 in Amsterdam. It is not known when they were deported. Martha and Walter Hecht died in the Sobibor extermination camp in July 1943. Their daughter Ursula was killed in Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1944.