Since 1922, the agricultural school ‚Haus Schalom' des Bachad (orthodox Jewish parallel organization to the Hechaluz) was located at Ackerweg 5, where young Zionists prepared for emigration to Palästina and were trained in agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry by neighbouring farmers. The clinker brick house was used for general residential purposes from 1932 and had to make way for the new P+R parking garage at Hamburg-Neugraben S-Bahn station in 1993.

In 1912, the Dutchman Johan Steenbergen founded the Industrie- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH in Dresden. The company produced photographic equipment and consumer goods. After merging with the company of camera table maker Emil Englisch in 1918, the factory was called Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co. The shareholders were Johan Steenbergen, Emil Englisch, Otto Diebel, Hugo Frauenstein, Konrad Koch, Emil Kirsch and Hermann Schubert.

The textile merchant Joseph Fränkel, born 18.06.1888, ran a white goods business at Leubener Str. 2. He was married to Ida Fränkel, widowed Steinhart. Ida had two children from her first marriage, Alfred and Herta. Joseph and Ida Fränkel were taken to the Hellerberg Jewish camp on November 23/24, 1942. Both had to perform forced labor in the Goehle factory, a Zeiss Ikon AG factory. On March 2, 1943, the camp was dissolved and all the inmates, including Joseph and Ida Fränkel, were deported from Neustadt station to Auschwitz.

Ida Fränkel was born on December 9, 1887 in Tachov (German: Tachau) in the western Bohemian region of Pilsen. She was born and widowed Steinhart. Ida's first husband Max Steinhart had died in 1925 and she had two children from this marriage, Alfred and Herta Steinhart. Ida Fränkel was the owner of the Max Steinhart department store for household and kitchen appliances at Louisenstrasse 39, on the corner of Alaunstrasse. She also worked there.

The businessman Bernhard Lippmann Hurwitz registered a cigarette and tobacco factory at Zirkusstraße 7/0 with the Dresden Trade Office on May 9, 1895. After various business relocations within the city of Dresden, cigarette production began at the end of September 1902 at Blasewitzer Strasse 68 (rear building)

On October 3, 1934, the Jewish owners of the factory, Benno Hurwitz and Dr. Emil Hurwitz, were deported by the NS states. Emil Hurwitz, were expropriated by the Nazi state.

Cigarette factory of the Berlin company of Josef Garbáty in Dresden. Garbáty had taken over the Dresden Aurelia cigarette factory in 1926.

The Jewish Garbáty family emigrated to America in 1939 after the Garbáty property was forcibly sold to the Jacob Koerfer Group from Cologne and the Hamburg-based Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken in the course of the „elimination of Jews from economic life“ in 1938. Josef Garbáty remained in Pankow and died in 1939 two days after his birthday at the age of 88.

The port city of Hamburg was one of the central port cities for emigration in the 19th and 20th centuries. More than five million Jews left their homes in Eastern Europe from 1881 onwards. They fled from pogroms, miserable living conditions and restrictive laws. They arrived in Hamburg by train to embark for the sea. For most of them, the USA became their new home. When the outbreak of cholera in Hamburg in August 1892 led to persistent rumors that the disease had been brought in by the immigrants, travelers from Russia and Austria-Hungary were banned from entering the city.

Michael Heilbronner was born on December 2, 1833 in Ichenhausen.He was married to Henriette, née Wimpfheimer, born on October 7, 1837 in Ichenhausen.Michael Heilbronner lived in the USA for several years before his marriage in 1857.The newly married couple lived in Zweibrücken for the first few years of their marriage.Their first three daughters were also born there.The family moved to Augsburg in 1868.

Victor Steiner was born on September 1, 1790. His parents were Simon Victor Steiner, born on June 17, 1762 and his wife Miriam Marianne, née Einstein, born on March 10, 1769 in Laupheim. Victor Steiner was married to Zemirah (Sophie) Reichenbach (Moos), born on April 12, 1799 in Hohenems. The couple had 12 children - Simon (Victor), born May 1, 1819, - Karolina, born May 1, 1820, - Gabriel, born March 25, 1826, - Daniel, born July 7, 1827, - Emilie (Esther), born July 27, 1828, - Henriette (Helene), b. June 30, 1829, - Johanna (Jeanette), b. Sep 15, 1831, - Kilian, b.