Tom Seidmann-Freud was born on November 17, 1892 in Vienna with the name Martha Gertrud Freud. She moved to Berlin with her family when she was still a child, where they lived at 6 Ansbacher Strasse. When she was around 15, she dropped the name Martha and decided to go by Tom. She enjoyed a good education, studied in London and in Berlin at the 'Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums' and received attention for her artistic work at a very young age. Her first book, the „Baby Liederbuch", was published in 1914.

Elli Hirsch was born in Berlin on March 23, 1873 under the name Aurelie Hirsch. She came from a Jewish family and showed artistic talent at an early age. After leaving school, she trained at the renowned Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, where her talent for illustration and design quickly became apparent.

The ‚Elbe-Sägewerk Schöna GmbH‘ had been owned by Emil Kaim and Albert Seligson from Berlin-Charlottenburg since 1921. They also ran sawmills in Berlin and Breslau. The Kaim couple regularly spent their vacations in their own house in Schöna na. After the Kaims were expelled from the town as Jews, at the end of 1938 the mayor of Sch na put the estate, which had possibly already gone bankrupt due to boycott measures, up for sale or lease.

Siegmund Kohn (born 1874 in Zahrawitz) had lived in Schöna since August 1922 and worked in the Brach tät family's Elbschloss Malzfabrik". In June 1923, Julie Kohn (Kohnova) (birth name unknown; born 1877 in Petrowitz), who was married to Siegmund Kohn, and their son Ernst (born 1903 in Kajlovec) also moved to Schöna. The family lived in an apartment in the malt factory. The Kohn family were Czechoslovakian citizens.

Jacob Myszkinow (born 1895 in Białystok) had lived in Sebnitz since March 1921. In the Sebnitz address books of 1925 and 1934, he was listed as a trader and was registered at Kreuzstraß 23. He was married to the non-Jewish Elisabeth Myszkinow (née Richter). According to the 1940 Sebnitz address book, she worked as a flower worker. Jacob Myszkinow was not listed in the same address book.

From: https://gedenkplaetze.info/juedische-geschichte/jacob-myszkinow

Gustav Baruch was born on April 4, 1860. He was married to Marta, née Wilhelm.

Gustav Baruch's store was listed in the Sebnitz commercial register (HR 235 - A45) from 1907 to 1938.

On July 5, 1938, Gustav Baruch was forced to sell his property at Markt 15, including the warehouse and inventory, to Mrs. Anna Stehling.

Gustav Baruch

Born 04.04.1860
Last residential address before deportation: Sebnitz/Sa.
Transport V/6, nr. 253 (08.09.1942, Dresden -> Theresienstadt)
Murdered on 11.10.1942 in Theresienstadt

Max Choyke, who had been working as an artificial flower manufacturer in Sebnitz since 1900, left the town in 1934, giving up his business, and moved to Dresden with his wife Else. Their last registered address before their deportation to Theresienstadt was the building at Zeughausstrasse 1 in Dresden, which was used as a so-called Jews' house during the Second World War until 1945.

Max Choyke

The textile merchant Benno (Baruch) Lubranitzki, born on 26.04.1880 in Pitschen, ran the ladies' and men's clothing store Lubranitzki in the artificial flower town of Sebnitz together with his wife Gertrud Lubranitzki, née Posner, born on 01.06. in Dresden.1885 in Dresden, ran the Lubranitzki ladies' and men's wardrobe shop at Lange Straß 1 / corner of Markt.

Immediately after the transfer of power to the Nazis, anti-Semitic measures were taken against the ‚Elbschloss Malzfabrik‘.