In the 1850s, Fanny Nathan (1803-1877) was moved by the desolate situation of Jewish orphans in the Paderborn region to found an orphanage for the province of Westphalia. On March 1, 1856, the institution opened in its building at Domplatz 14. As early as 1857, the catchment area was extended to the Rhineland. Due to the increasing number of children, the new Jüdische Waisenhaus für die Provinzen Westfalen und Rheinland“ was built at Leostraße 3, which the children moved into on August 1, 1863.

In the 1850s, Fanny Nathan (1803-1877) was moved by the desolate situation of Jewish orphans in the Paderborn region to found an orphanage for the province of Westphalia. On March 1, 1856, the institution opened in its building at Domplatz 14. As early as 1857, the catchment area was extended to the Rhineland. Due to the increasing number of children, the new Jüdische Waisenhaus für die Provinzen Westfalen und Rheinland“ was built at Leostraße 3, which the children moved into on August 1, 1863.

The important German-Israeli writer Jenny Aloni was born on September 7, 1917 in the midwifery school in Paderborn and grew up as the daughter of Jewish parents, the merchant Moritz Rosenbaum and his wife Henny, in the residential and commercial building at Bachstrasse 2, which no longer exists today.

The following entries can be found in the address book of the city of Breslau from 1918: Lewin Caßriel, Großkaufmann, XVIII, Hohenzollernstr. 119,121 I., (Tel. 3170) s. C. Lewin. - Lewin Leo, wholesale merchant, purveyor to the court of his Serene Highness the Prince of Lippe-Detmold, XVIII, Akazienallee 12, (Tel 4-50) s. C. Lewin. - C. Lewin, owner Caßriel u. Leo Lewin, the latter purveyor to the court of his Serene Highness the Prince of Lippe-Detmold and Prince Georg von Anhalt, fur factory founded in 1870, Gartenstraße 7 II.  -  Caßriel Lewin was born in Posen in 1856.

Inge Ransenberg was born on 12.03.1935 in Wennemen in the Sauerland region. At the age of just nine, the Jewish girl was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1944. The story of the Ransenberg family shows in particular the different experiences of persecution that the Jewish population in rural Germany had during the National Socialist era. Inge's oldest brother Rolf Ransenberg was given the chance to emigrate to the USA in 1938 at the age of 14.

Dr. Alfred Haas was born on December 19, 1878 in St. Ingbert. His  parents were Julius Haas and Clara, née Weisenbeck. From 1897 he studied at the University of Munich and became a doctor of medicine in 1902. Until 1904, he worked as a surgical assistant in Saarbrücken and Paderborn. He then worked as an assistant in the surgery and orthopaedics departments of the municipal hospital in Cologne. From 1907 he maintained a private surgical practice in Munich. In 1909 he married Elsa Schülein, a daughter of the brewery owner Joseph Schülein and Ida Schülein, née Baer from Oberdorf am Ipf.

The following entry can be found in the 1883 Commercial Handbook of the Royal Capital and Residence City of Breslau: Frankenstein u. Sohn, Caskel (F.), Leinen, Baumwoll- u. Buntwaren, Carlstr.31 pt. - From 1. On January 1, 1834, the youngest son Joseph Frankenstein, who had already supported his father in the management of the business for many years, became a partner in the business;and the business name was changed to Caskel Frankenstein & Sohn " - published in an advertisement in the newspaper " Der Bote aus dem Riesengebirge", issue no.

The following entry can be found in the 1883 Commercial Handbook of the Royal Capital and Residence City of Breslau: Frankenstein u. Sohn, Caskel (F.), Leinen, Baumwoll- u. Buntwaren, Carlstr.31 pt. - From 1. On January 1, 1834, the youngest son Joseph Frankenstein, who had already supported his father in the management of the business for many years, became a partner in the business;and the business name was changed to Caskel Frankenstein & Sohn " - published in an advertisement in the newspaper " Der Bote aus dem Riesengebirge", issue no.

Lothar Conitzer, born in West Prussia in 1865, came from a wealthy merchant family and was therefore able to study medicine. He ran a successful medical practice in Hamburg, lived with his wife Frieda and three children in comfortable circumstances and was fond of art and society. Due to anti-Semitic laws, he lost his livelihood from 1935, had to flee in 1938 and ended up destitute in Cape Town, where he and his wife died in 1947.