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.

The Heyn family ( Hein Levi) had been resident in Bremervürde since 1753.

In May 1936, the Jewish merchant Siegfried Heyn was forced to sell his home and business premises. Siegfried Heyn moved with his wife to Hamburg in 1937 and then to Bremen in 1938, where he was arrested in the early hours of November 10 and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was released as he was able to prove that he was able to emigrate.

Günther Heyn, Siegfried Heyn's 29-year-old son and 22-year-old daughter Ilse Heyn emigrated to the United States of America as early as 1938.

The doctor and poet Isaac Salomon (Siegfried) Kapper, born on March 21, 1821 in Smíchow near Prague; died on June 7, 1879 in Pisa, was a pioneer and founder of the Czech-Jewish movement.The group around Kapper strove for the full spiritual freedom of the Jews and their assimilation into the Czech milieu. In 1848 (Prague Whitsun Uprising), Kapper took part in the revolutionary and national struggles on the side of the Czechs.

Hermann Gradnauer was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1894, the son of a shoe retailer. After serving in the military as a medic until 1918, he studied dentistry and became a dentist in Hamelin in 1920. His wife Hilde Gradnauer, née Ilberg, also came from Wolfenbättel, where her parents had an important textile business. The couple had two children

‚Brit Haolim‘: Chaluzischer Jugendbund from 1922, which merged with the Jung-Jüdischer Wanderbund in 1925. 

The Jüdischer Jugendbund ‚Brit Haolim‘ had as its practical goal the preparation for life in the kibbutz. The ‚Brit Haolim‘ consistently demanded that every fully educated young Zionist should emigrate to Palestine. Even after emigration, they wanted to live together and then merge into the working class of Palatinate.