The Biskupsky dvur 1146/7 (Bishop's Court) housed the Youth Aliyah School and an office of the Hechaluz from May 1939 to mid-1941. The director of the Youth Aliyah School was Egon Redlich. In preparation for emigration - primarily to Palestine - Hebrew, English, Jewish history, the geography of Palestine, carpentry and locksmithing, home economics, chemistry and mathematics were taught.

At Benediktská 685/2, the Jewish aid organization for the rescue of Jewish children and young people „Kinder- und Jugend-Alija“ was based. At the same time, the illegal headquarters of the Zionist youth association „Betar“ was located here.

Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. His birthplace was located on the corner of the Great Ring (Staroměstské náměstí No. 2), near the Teyn Church in Prague's Old Town.

However, this original building was destroyed by fire in 1897. The current house on this site is a reconstructed building known as "Kafka's birthplace". Today, it houses a small exhibition about Kafka and his life.

Louis Wertheimer was born on September 4, 1873 in Gunzenhausen. His parents were Amson Wertheimer and Carolina Wertheimer, née Steppacher from Ichenhausen. Louis had eight siblings - four half-siblings from his father's 1st marriage to  Amalia Lehmann, born on July 7, 1835 in Gunzenhausen, - Emma, born on  July 20, 1863, - Elise, born on March 20, 1866, -  Albert, born on April 13, 1867 and  Siegfried, born on December 12, 1868.

Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 to a wealthy German-speaking Jewish family. His father was a successful industrialist. Although Werfel was of Jewish origin, religion played only a subordinate role in the family's everyday life; the family was culturally assimilated, western-oriented and rather secular.

Despite this secular background, Judaism remained a prominent theme in Werfel's life, especially on an intellectual and moral level.

The Zionist-oriented Jewish sports club Hagibor was founded in 1914. From 1919, the club had the opportunity to train at the Sparta Prague sports ground in Letná. It lost this opportunity in 1926. Therefore, in 1927, the club built its own sports complex for athletics and football on the grounds of the Israelite Hospital and Nursing Home. The Hagibor sports club was dissolved by the Protectorate administration in 1939

After the club was dissolved, an internment and labor camp was set up on the sports complex.

Grete Reiner, born Margarethe Stein, was a German-speaking Jewish translator and editor who lived in the villa of the Nad olšinami 672/4. She was born in Prague on December 7, 1891 and was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in March 1944. She was married twice, first to the lawyer Oskar Straschnow, with whom she had a son named Kurt, and later to the press spokesman of the Austrian embassy, Karel Reiner, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.

The building, which today houses the children's and youth clinic of the Královské Vinohrady Faculty Hospital, was home to a Jewish old people's home until 1942.

From June 21, 1940, the park-like grounds were made accessible to Jews as a substitute for the ban on visiting public parks. Only visitors with the J-Pass or the J-Kennkarte were allowed to enter the grounds.