Stanislaus Bender (1882-1975) came from Łódź, where he trained as a lithographer. He went to Paris and Munich to study art and settled in Munich in 1914 with his wife Jadwiga, née Freistadt, and daughter Marylka Bender. Jadwiga died of the Spanish flu in 1919. Stanislaus Bender worked as a commercial artist with his own studio, where Marylka also worked. Artistically, he explored his Jewish-Polish origins and painted genre scenes from the so-called shtetl. 

Today, Rosenbaum's Tabernacle is a reminder of the almost hundred-year history of the former Jewish community in Zell am Main. This was shaped above all by the work of Reb Mendel Rosenbaum and his family. The family established a Talmud school in Zell as well as a yeshiva, synagogue and mikvah at the Judenhof.

A small Jewish community existed in Zell am Main from the beginning of the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century. It was characterized by the activities of the Rosenbaum family, who established a Talmud school here. The Laubhütte (Sukka) in the Judenhof is the symbol of their work and has been open to the public since 2014.

Mendel Rosenbaum (1782-1868) is the best-known member of the former Jewish community in Zell am Main. He founded the Judenhof and enjoyed high recognition and political influence throughout Bavaria. 

Square in Karlshorst named after Johanna and Willy Brauer. A Jewish couple who lived in Karlshorst for many years and hid Jewish citizens during the Nazi era.

Birth dates according to the sign: born 1883 / died 1944 and born 1875 / died 1948

The following lived here:

Martha Hecht, née Rosen
* 05.05.1891 in Mönchengladbach, † 09.07.1943 in Sobibor
Martha Rosen married Walter Hecht in Berlin in 1920, their daughter Ursula was born in 1922. In June 1941, the small family was registered in Bussum in the Netherlands, from 1943 in Amsterdam. It is not known when they were deported. Martha and Walter Hecht died in the Sobibor extermination camp in July 1943. Their daughter Ursula was killed in Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1944.

The trading company Knauth, Nachod & Kühne was founded in 1852.  The co-owners of the company included the merchants Franz Theodor Knauth, Jacob Nachod and Friedrich Kühne. The company was originally active in cloth and commission sales. It had a lively import and export business with sales partners in the USA. It later focused on trading and banking business. -Jacob Nachod was born in Dresden on March 22, 1814.

The publishing house W. Vobach & Co. published not only art portfolios but also works on education, music education and upbringing. This corresponded to the reform ideas of the time - a spirit that was supported by many Jewish publishers, schools, theaters and newspapers in Friedrichstrasse.

This creative class was not defined by blood, but by education, language and hard work - the very milieu in which Willi Vobach was honored.
 

Universalverlag W. Vobach & Co,.

The address Frankfurter Allee 40 is demonstrably associated with the publishing house W. Vobach & Co. The building was constructed around 1906 with the involvement of the Vobach family. In the context of Nazi persecution, the property was seized – and not clearly transferred back after 1945.