The origin of the name is unclear.

After the family of Jews from Borgholz, popularly known as Jühen, who settled there around the middle of the 17th century.

The painter and graphic artist Jacob Pins, born in Höxter on January 17, 1917, fled the Nazi persecution of Jews to Palestine, but after the war he reconnected with the city of his birth and donated his artistic estate to Höxter. In 2003, the city of Höxter made him an honorary citizen. Jacob Pins died on Dec. 4, 2005 in Jerusalem.
The Jacob Pins Gesellschaft – Kunstverein Höxter documents and administers the foundation, which comprises hundreds of works, and also offers an exhibition forum to other selected artists of different backgrounds.

Jüdisches Umschulungs- und Einsatzlager am Grünen Weg in Paderborn. „This camp was founded at the end of June 1939 as a so-called Hachsharah kibbutz. In a contract between the „Reich Association of German Jews“ and the city of Paderborn, the plot of land on Grünen Weg „was made available free of charge so that young Jews could be trained in the course of Jewish self-help;dian self-help, young Jews could be trained for physical, mainly agricultural and horticultural work in preparation for their emigration“.

The house of the Jewish Uhlmann family from the village of Ovenhausen was rebuilt in the open-air museum.

Samuel Hummel was born on March 10, 1860 in Buttenwiesen as the son of Jonas Hummel and his wife Klara, née Ullmann. In 1890, he set up his own business for sliced and delicatessen products. In 1920, he built the residential and commercial building on Donauwörther Straöe - a stately, three-storey building with a central bay that still exists today. Samuel Hummel died on February 12, 1927 as a result of influenza. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery on Haunstetter Strasse in Augsburg. His business activity presumably ended with his death.

Adolf (Aaron Moses) Pollak Ritter von Rudin was born on May 15, 1817 in Wscheraditz (Všeradice) in Böhmen.  Working as a commercial clerk in Vienna from 1834, he 1836  was already the owner of a small sealing wax production business. Around 1840, Adolf Moses Pollak and Johann Preshel founded a zipper factory in Vienna. They went their separate ways in 1846. In addition to the Vienna factory, A. M.