Since the 1980s, local politicians in Soltau have been grappling with questions of an appropriate and historically responsible culture of remembrance of the Shoah.

The roots of the Baldauf family lie in Binswangen, where Nathan Baldauf, born on July 2, 1847, lived with his family and ran a large textile business.

The Berlin address book from 1920 contains the following entry: Franziska Rager, Spitzen, Weißßwaren u. Blusen, Schöneberg, Bayerischer Platz 10, Erdgeschoß, T. Steph. 3269., Wohnung: NW 23, Klopstockstraße 26. - Entry of the business in the commercial register - 1916 - expired 1939 - Franziska Rager, born on May 1, 1883 in Berlin  was deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on October 3, 1942 and from there to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp on September 6, 1943 and murdered there.

The Frankfurt address book from 1923 contains the following entry: Ferd. Dreyfuß & Moritz, Großhandlung, Fabrik und Export von Damenhandschuhen, Strumpf- u. Wollwaren, Verkauf, Kontor, Lager u,d Verwaltung: Bürger-Str. 9.11., (Tel. Hansa 3729,3730,3731 Röm 4005,4006,4007). (BK Reichsk. D. & J. de Neufville, Darmst. u. Nationalbk., Dresdner Bk., Grunelius & Co., Postscheck-K. 4690), dispatch: Post-Str.8a, Tel. (Hansa 3970). Owner Ferd. Dreyfuß. Collective proc. Moses Rosenstock, Karl Lindenkohl, Arthur Kühnrich, Fritz Cahn, Selma Isenberg, Fdr. Schröder u. Sigf. Rossmann.

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Rifka Blitzblau, née Brenner, was born on September 7, 1888. Her husband Michael was born on January 16, 1892 in Łodź. The couple had four children: Adolf, Herman, Rosel and Siegfried. The family was forcibly deported to Poland on October 28, 1938 as part of the so-called Polen-Aktion. The family is listed in the records of the Łodź ghetto, where Michael Blitzblau is also listed as a janitor. He was murdered on March 17, 1943. His son Siegfried, who was born in Dresden on March 1 or 30, 1927, was deported, as was his mother.