Louis Wertheimer was born on September 4, 1873 in Gunzenhausen. His parents were Amson Wertheimer and Carolina Wertheimer, née Steppacher from Ichenhausen. Louis had eight siblings - four half-siblings from his father's 1st marriage to  Amalia Lehmann, born on July 7, 1835 in Gunzenhausen, - Emma, born on  July 20, 1863, - Elise, born on March 20, 1866, -  Albert, born on April 13, 1867 and  Siegfried, born on December 12, 1868.

Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 to a wealthy German-speaking Jewish family. His father was a successful industrialist. Although Werfel was of Jewish origin, religion played only a subordinate role in the family's everyday life; the family was culturally assimilated, western-oriented and rather secular.

Despite this secular background, Judaism remained a prominent theme in Werfel's life, especially on an intellectual and moral level.

The Zionist-oriented Jewish sports club Hagibor was founded in 1914. From 1919, the club had the opportunity to train at the Sparta Prague sports ground in Letná. It lost this opportunity in 1926. Therefore, in 1927, the club built its own sports complex for athletics and football on the grounds of the Israelite Hospital and Nursing Home. The Hagibor sports club was dissolved by the Protectorate administration in 1939

After the club was dissolved, an internment and labor camp was set up on the sports complex.

Grete Reiner, born Margarethe Stein, was a German-speaking Jewish translator and editor who lived in the villa of the Nad olšinami 672/4. She was born in Prague on December 7, 1891 and was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in March 1944. She was married twice, first to the lawyer Oskar Straschnow, with whom she had a son named Kurt, and later to the press spokesman of the Austrian embassy, Karel Reiner, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.

Na Třebešíně 1423/18 housed a Jewish old people's home until 1942. The facility, which was managed by the Association for Jewish Nursing (Spolek pro židovskou péči o nemocné), was closed in connection with the deportations to Theresienstadt in 1942. The building is now used as a private residence.

Egon Erwin Kisch was born on April 29, 1885 in Prague in the house „Zu den zwei goldenen Bären“ at Melantrichova 475/16. He grew up there with his four brothers; his father Hermann Kisch's cloth shop was on the ground floor

In 1897, as a child, he experienced the infamous nationalist-motivated ‚December Storm‘, which began with an attack on German-speaking institutions, but then turned into anti-Semitic terror. Only the intervention of soldiers put a stop to the mob.

The origins of the hospital date back to 1888, when the Jewish community of Prague decided to establish a facility for sick and poor members. In 1908, the "Jubilee Foundation of Emperor Franz Joseph for the Sick" acquired the land, and in 1911 the building was erected in the classical modernist style according to the plans of architect Viktor Kafka.

During the Second World War, the site was converted into a Nazi labor camp for people from mixed marriages in 1943, where around 3,500 people were interned and forcibly used to process mica for the company Glimmer--Spalterei GmbH.

The buildings, which originally belonged to the Prague Burial Brotherhood, were the headquarters of several departments of the Jewish religious community. Among other things, the personnel office and the statistics office, the housing department and building administration, the social welfare department and the administration of Jewish social institutions were located here.