Sara Horwitz, née Meyer, was the third wife of the wealthy cattle dealer Gustav Horwitz (1861 - 1932).

Sara Horwitz was deported from Hamburg to the Theresienstadt/Terezin ghetto on 5 May 1943 on transport VI/6.

Julius Isaak Halle was born on December 18, 1864 in Schnaitach. His parents were David Halle, a teacher in Munich, and Jette Halle, née Rosenthal. Julius Halle had three siblings -  Karolina (Lina, married) Kronheimer, born on February 1, 1867 in Schnaittach, widowed, died on March 18, 1939 in Munich.

Nobert Rosenfeld was born in Munich on August 26, 1879. His parents were the Munich merchant Salomon Sigmund Rosenfeld and Karoline Rosenfeld, née Kaufmann. After attending secondary school in Munich, Norbert Rosenfeld spent about two years in France and two years working in the USA. With the rank of non-commissioned officer, he fought for Germany in the First World War. On July 25, 1911, Norbert Rosenfeld married Katharina Moller, born on July 15, 1889 in Hadersleben, district of Schleswig, in Oberhaching.

Willy Vobach and the legacy of a European publishing dynasty Willy Vobach came from a traditional Jewish publishing family whose roots can be traced back to the early 19th century: his grandfather, Karl August Vobach, was a publisher in Potsdam, while his father Gustav Rudolf August Robert Vobach ran the publishing house in Leipzig. From the middle of the 19th century at the latest, the family was not only active in Potsdam and Leipzig, but also in Berlin, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.

The old cemetery was laid out around 1815 and occupied until 1888. No gravestones have been preserved today. The cemetery was closed in November 1938, expropriated, sold, leveled and used as garden land.

In the book by  " Hans Franke, Geschichte und Schicksal der Juden in Heilbronn " can be found on page 286 in the section - Industrie,- Handels- und Gewerbebetriebe - Jüdische Firmen gemäß dem Heilbronner Adreßbuch vom Jahre 1931 - also the following entry: Marschall M., Inh. Arthur Marschall, Stock- und Schirmhandel, Sülmerstraße 46. -  In the Israelitische Gemeindeliste of April 1, 1937 (Buch Hans Franke, page 290) the following entry - Marschall Arthur, Familie, Stock- und Schirmhandel, Kunzestraße 7.

In the book by  " Hans Franke, Geschichte und Schicksal der Juden in Heilbronn " can be found on page 286 in the section - Industrie,- Handels- und Gewerbebetriebe - Jüdische Firmen gemäß dem Heilbronner Adreßbuch vom Jahre 1931 - also the following entry " Gebrüder Ottenheimer, Inh. Emil und Max Ottenheimer, Kleiderfabrik, Badstr. 4 - In the Israelite community list of April 1, 1937 (Hans Franke book, page 290) the following entries - Ottenheimer Emil, family, clothing factory, Titotstr. 9  -  Ottenheimer Max, family, clothing factory, Titotstr. 9.

In the house of Na Třebešíně 1423/18 there was an old people's home of the Jewish religious community. The facility, which was managed by the Association for Jewish Nursing (Spolek pro zidovskou péči o nemocné), was closed in connection with the deportations of Jewish residents to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942.

The Old Jewish Cemetery in Žižkov was founded as a plague cemetery during the epidemic that struck Prague in 1679 and 1680. In January 1680, the Jews bought a 10 fathom long and 42 cubit wide plot of a former vineyard (about an eighth of the later cemetery area) in the village of Olšany from Prague City Hall.

Together with the cemetery, the Jewish community of Prague founded a hospital here, to which plague patients from the city's Jewish ghetto were brought.