The Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet Leisrael, KKL) was founded in 1901 at the 5th Zionist Congress in Basel. The aim of the fund was to collect donations worldwide to support the Jewish settlement movement in what was then Palestine. After the founding of the State of Israel, the KKL focused its work on the cultivation and reforestation of the country.

The Jewish Agency for Palestine (Heb. Sochnut) was founded in 1922 as the official body of the Jewish population living in what was then Palestine. It represented their interests before the governing authorities of the British Mandate and the League of Nations. After the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the organization changed its name and, as the Jewish Agency for Israel, increasingly promoted immigration and the integration of new migrants.

Pechach is a Hebrew acronym for Partisanim—Chayalim—Chaluzim, meaning partisans—soldiers—pioneers. The newspaper Pechach was published for the movement of the same name in Munich from June 1946 until December 1948.

Dror (Heb. freedom) is a socialist-Zionist youth movement founded in Russia before World War I. The organization was also represented in Poland, the Baltic States, Romania, and Hungary. Dror members came mainly from the proletarian milieu and were active in many DP camps for children and youths.

The Stuttgart address book of 1923 contains the following entries: Weinschel Oskar, manufacturer, owner of Weinschel & Katz, Militärstr. 68, - Weinschel u. Katz, Tabak- und Zigarettenfabrik u. Großhandlung, owner Oskar Weinschel, Militärstr. 35. The following entry can be found in the memorial book "Weg und Schicksal der Stuttgarter Juden": Oskar Weinschel, cigar factory, consul of Panama, Militärstr. 68. - Yehiel Duvdevani was a Zionist activist and politician.

Abram Schwarzberg received a concession to open a kosher butcher’s shop in 1947. For the majority of the DPs, the availability of kosher slaughtered meat was very important. On February 2, 1947, Schwarzberg’s shop was vandalized when a stone was thrown through the window in an antisemitic attack.

In 1937 a small residential estate of some 200 houses, called the “Reichskleinsiedlung Kaltherberge,” was built for working-class families in need. At the end of 1945 it was seized by the U.S. military government. All German residents had to move out of their homes—leaving all their furniture behind— to provide accommodation for about 2,000 Jewish DPs. In addition, a school, a synagogue, a sports club, and a kindergarten were built there. From 1949 onwards, the former residents were able to return to their homes. The last DPs moved out in May 1950.

After the end of World War II, Polish DPs were accommodated in the military quarters in Freimann originally built as barracks for the SS. From spring 1948 onward, the barracks site served as a DP transit and resettlement center — with a high percentage of Jewish DPs waiting to emigrate. After the closure of the transit camp, the U.S. Army took over the military housing in 1950 and re-named it Warner Barracks.

From October 1946, Dr. Phillip Auerbach was “State Comissioner for racial, religious and political victims of National Socialism” in Bavaria. He saw himself as an “advocate for Jewish DPs,” accelerated the rehabilitation of Nazi victims, the legal prosecution of Nazi perpetrators and supported thousands of DPs in their efforts to emigrate. In 1952, he committed suicide after a show trial-like conviction for embezzlement and fraud. In 1954, he was rehabilitated by an investigative committee of the Bavarian Parliament.

Immediately after the end of the war, the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde München (IKG) moved back into premises at Herzog-Max-Strasse 7 and had its administrative headquarters there. It was in the immediate vicinity of the place where the main synagogue had stood, demolished in June 1938 on direct orders from Adolf Hitler. The IKG’s efforts in 1949 to establish a green space to commemorate this destruction were rejected by the City of Munich, with the argument that parking spaces were urgently needed in the city center.