After the Second World War, the Canadian government allowed around one thousand orphans from Europe to emigrate to Canada as part of the War Orphans Project, which was initiated by the Jewish community in Canada and founded in 1919. Manfred Saalheimer, who was born in Würzburg, was in charge of implementing the program. He was supported by the Canadian social worker Ethel Ostry, who had her office in Munich. Between September 1947 and March 1952, 1,116 children from DP camps and children's homes from all over Europe came to Canada.

Rescue committee founded in 1939 by Orthodox rabbis in the USA and Canada with the aim of rescuing Eastern European rabbis and religious students. After 1945, the Vaad Hatzala provided spiritual and material support to the DPs in the DP camps. In Munich, the organization ran an office at Bachmairstraße 12, where the Deputy Director for Germany, Rabbi Aviezer Bustin, also lived.

The address book of the city of Stuttgart from 1884 contains the following entries: Einstein Marx, merchant, Tübinger Straße 4  1/2. - Einstein Gebr., Band,- Kurz und Posamentierwaren. Igr., partners Isak and Max Einstein, Tübinger Straße 4  1/2 p.

Since 1922, the agricultural school ‚Haus Schalom' des Bachad (orthodox Jewish parallel organization to the Hechaluz) was located at Ackerweg 5, where young Zionists prepared for emigration to Palästina and were trained in agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry by neighbouring farmers. The clinker brick house was used for general residential purposes from 1932 and had to make way for the new P+R parking garage at Hamburg-Neugraben S-Bahn station in 1993.

In 1912, the Dutchman Johan Steenbergen founded the Industrie- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH in Dresden. The company produced photographic equipment and consumer goods. After merging with the company of camera table maker Emil Englisch in 1918, the factory was called Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co. The shareholders were Johan Steenbergen, Emil Englisch, Otto Diebel, Hugo Frauenstein, Konrad Koch, Emil Kirsch and Hermann Schubert.

The textile merchant Joseph Fränkel, born 18.06.1888, ran a white goods business at Leubener Str. 2. He was married to Ida Fränkel, widowed Steinhart. Ida had two children from her first marriage, Alfred and Herta. Joseph and Ida Fränkel were taken to the Hellerberg Jewish camp on November 23/24, 1942. Both had to perform forced labor in the Goehle factory, a Zeiss Ikon AG factory. On March 2, 1943, the camp was dissolved and all the inmates, including Joseph and Ida Fränkel, were deported from Neustadt station to Auschwitz.

Ida Fränkel was born on December 9, 1887 in Tachov (German: Tachau) in the western Bohemian region of Pilsen. She was born and widowed Steinhart. Ida's first husband Max Steinhart had died in 1925 and she had two children from this marriage, Alfred and Herta Steinhart. Ida Fränkel was the owner of the Max Steinhart department store for household and kitchen appliances at Louisenstrasse 39, on the corner of Alaunstrasse. She also worked there.

The businessman Bernhard Lippmann Hurwitz registered a cigarette and tobacco factory at Zirkusstraße 7/0 with the Dresden Trade Office on May 9, 1895. After various business relocations within the city of Dresden, cigarette production began at the end of September 1902 at Blasewitzer Strasse 68 (rear building)

On October 3, 1934, the Jewish owners of the factory, Benno Hurwitz and Dr. Emil Hurwitz, were deported by the NS states. Emil Hurwitz, were expropriated by the Nazi state.