Dr. jur. Josef Eilbott was born on April 11, 1885 in Zweibr<cken. His parents were Adolf Eilbott and Barbara Betty Eilbott, née Kern. Josef Eilbott was married to Meta, née Steppacher, born on September 3, 1890 in Tübingen. Meta´s parents were the merchant Adolf Steppacher, born on November 27, 1849 in Ichenhausen and deceased on November 21, 1926 in Munich, and Karolina (Lina) Steppacher, née Frank, born on January 16, 1867 in Rödelsee, died on December 2, 1935 in Munich.

The entrepreneur Benno B. Thorsch co-founded the Dresden camera factory Guthe & Thorsch in Niedersedlitz in 1919.

Benno Thorsch was forced to give up his company Kamera-Werkstätten Guthe & Thorsch and leave Germany in 1938 due to his Jewish descent.

He took over a business in Detroit in 1938; he later opened the City Camera Exchange studio near Hollywood with his son Bernward.

The following entry can be found in the directory of the committee of Viennese merchants from the year  ???? : 1875 - Schlesinger Heinrich, Commissions- und Agenturgeschäfts - Inhaber, Firma: Schlesinger & Kanitz, VII. Dreilaufergasse 13.

The old cemetery was located "On the heath"; it is said to have served as a burial ground for the Israelite community "for a very long time. Its area covers 25.37 acres. Today, around 21 gravestones or fragments are still preserved, most of which date from the second half of the 19th century.

In the autumn of 1945, the British-Jewish aid organization Jewish Relief Unit (JRU) was looking for a convalescent home for boys and girls who had escaped the Nazi genocide. The choice fell on Lüneburg, as a small post-war Jewish community had already established itself there, which could be involved in the care of the children.

The neurologist and psychiatrist Dr. med. Nathan Albert Ransohoff was born in Nieheim, Westphalia, in 1872 and was the medical director of the Stephansfeld-Hördt asylum in Alsace from 1904 to 1919. After the First World War, he was expelled from Alsace in 1919 and came to Lüneburg in a roundabout way in 1921 together with his wife Hilma Ransohoff, née Bagge.

Hirsch Lengel was born in 1873 in the small Galician town of Dąbrowa, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Around 1897, he married Bertha Lengel, née Lirt, who also came from Dąbrowa. At that time, there was a large Jewish community in the town, but it was very difficult for Jews to earn a living, and after the birth of their fourth child in 1903, the Lengel family decided to leave Dąbrowa.

Lotte Heinemann was born in Lüneburg in 1892 as the fourth child of Selma and Robert Heinemann and studied medicine.

In the mid-1920s, Dr. Lotte Heinemann settled in Lüneburg as a paediatrician in her parents' house at Schießgrabenstraße 10. She also worked as an assistant to the Lüneburg district physician and looked after the children at the Wilschenbruch convalescent home, among other things.

The Less family's manufactured goods business at Gro en Bäckerstra e 18 was affected by boycott campaigns; in 1941, the family fled into exile in the USA via the USSR   . All of their assets were confiscated by the Gestapo.