Immediately after the transfer of power to the Nazis, anti-Semitic measures were taken against the ‚Elbschloss Malzfabrik‘.

Albert Ballin (born August 15 1857 in Hamburg; died November 9 1918) was a German shipowner and one of the most important German personalities during the time of the German Empire. As General Director, he made the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) the largest shipping line in the world.

Siegfried Rose was the second generation to run the manufactured goods business founded by his father Georg Rose at Mittelstrasse 10, Sehnde's main shopping street. Georg Rose had the three-storey house built after purchasing the land in 1898. The first floor housed the business premises, while the first and second floors provided the family with ample living space. After the dissolution of the Jewish community in Bolzum and the sale and demolition of the synagogue (around 1902/1903), a prayer room was also located here for the Jewish community.

The Leeser family had lived in Bremervörde since 1821, when Levi Leeser, originally from Uthlede, came to Bremervörde, where he worked as an assistant to the merchant and butcher Heyn. He later opened his own butcher's shop, which was run by his son Adolph. Adolph had eight children, two of whom died in infancy and two of whom emigrated to the USA in the 19th century. His son Harry, who owned his own livestock business at Bahnhofstraße 3 and was chairman of the Bremervörde Livestock Association, died in 1932. His sister Henriette  was deported to Minsk in 1941 and perished there.

The Blau/Adler family Nathan Blau from Thüringen (born 1845) married Bertha Baruch in 1873 and a year later bought a house in Neue Strasse (now no. 80) in Bremervürde. There he traded in furs and animal skins and later founded a shoe shop. The couple had two daughters (Hulda and Henriette) and two sons, Max (Martin) and Bernhard. Martin died early. Two years after Nathan Blau's death (1902), his daughter Hulda married Julius Adler and continued the business with him. In 1909 Julius acquired the civil right.

Joseph Nathan

In 1812, Nathan Salomon from Südpreußen settled in Nieder Ochtenhausen. He was a butcher and tradesman by profession. Around 1900, his son Heinrich Salomon moved into house no. 64. In 1909, the Salomon family finally moved to Bremervörde after Joseph (Julius) Salomon, the son of Heinrich Salomon, acquired the property at Flutstraße 71 (formerly Lokal „Alt Bremervörde“, Bremer Straße 14). In November 1909, Joseph was granted the civil right. The butcher Joseph was active in Bremervörde as a cattle dealer, while he leased the butcher's shop to Claus Sethmann.

Max Leopold, who was born in 1879 in Barchfeld (Thuringia), married Bella Eckstein, born in 1886 in Oberlauringen (Franconia), in Bremervölde. Their three children Stephan Arno (born 1912), Hans (born 1916) and Erika (born 1922) attended secondary school and, just like the other Jewish children from Bremerwald, suffered injustice from their teachers and classmates at an early age.

The two sons Stephan Arno and Hans managed to flee to North America in 1934 and 1935.

The Jewish religious community in Bremerv rde did not have its own synagogue – until May 1936, services were held in a prayer room in the private home of the Heyn family.