Max Lerner was born on June 2, 1874 in Krakow.

He probably grew up speaking German and had an Austrian passport when he emigrated to Uelzen in 1893 at the age of 19. He got work in the business of his later father-in-law Jakob Kupferstein. In 1899 he married Antonie Kupferstein (1877-1942) in Hanover, and from 1904 onwards ran Antonie's father's raw products and metal goods business in Achterstra<e.

The couple had five children, of whom Jenny and Herta survived.

Even before her marriage, Emma Deutsch lived in Uelzen and ran a haberdashery shop at Lüneburger Straäe 10, which was incorporated into the business of the company ›Leo Deutsch‹ üafter the marriage.

The Deutsch family had three children: Alfred (1897–1914, killed in action in the First World War), Gertrud (*1899, presumed murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp) and Norbert (1902–1974 in Haifa/lsrael).

Hermann Benjamin, born on August 26, 1881 in Uelzen, took over his father Eduard Benjamin's tannery and chemical washing plant as master tanner in 1905.

The business was located at Gudesstr. 28 and operated under his management as ›Uelzener Dampffärberei und chemische Waschanstalt Hermann Benjamin‹. The company expanded beyond the borders of Uelzen – Benjamin opened branches in Salzwedel, Harburg, Lüneburg and Celle.

The Dortmund address book from 1930 contains the following entry:  Elias Otto, Dr., Rechtsanwalt u. Notar, F 37352, Hansastr.50, Wohn: Prinz-Friedrich-Karl Str.15. - Otto (Salomon) Elias was born in Dortmund in March 1876. His parents were the merchant Adolph Elias and Julie, née Schwarz. On June 3, 1899, Otto Elias received his doctorate in Erlangen on the subject of „The loan mortgage according to common and civil law“. From 1907, the lawyer worked in a law firm partnership with his brother-in-law Dr.

Rudolf Conitzer was born in 1851 in Jeschewo, a small village outside Schwetz. His father Moses Conitzer had a small department store there. Rudolf worked in this department store from the age of 13 and helped his father to expand the business for the next 14 years.

In 1878, Rudolf Conitzer founded his own company under the name Kaufhaus Rud. In 1911, it was the largest business in the area. After the end of the First World War, it was closed for several years until it was sold for a third of its value in 1929. The house still stands on the market square today.

On June 21, 1692, the merchant Assur Marx (who lived from 1699 to 1730 in the building at Groäe Märkerstraße 14, which is still standing) was able to purchase a garden for the Jews living in Halle to create a cemetery. In the following years, foreign Jews who died at the Leipzig Trade Fair were also buried in this cemetery. In 1716, it was extended by the purchase of a neighboring plot of land. It was used until the new cemetery was built at the end of the 1860s. In 1937, the cemetery was destroyed by the National Socialists.