A quarter of the tenants in the Hackesche Höfen at the beginning of the Third Reich were of Jewish origin. From 1912 to 1933, the home for girls of the Berlin chapter of the Jüdischer Frauenbund (founded in 1904) was located there, and social work was one of its most important fields of work. Here, single, gainfully employed young girls could find accommodation for little money. At that time, many Eastern European Orthodox Jews/Jüd:innen fled the Russian pogroms and brought Yiddish theater and music to Berlin.*

Menko Held,born on 29.12.1846 was the owner of the textile department store Menko Held in Wertheim, Marktplatz 8 -10.The houses 8 and 10 formed the department store Menko Held.In the years before 1911 were owners of the house No.8 Max and Moritz Held and für the house 10 Menko Held.1911 Menko Held died on 3.1.1918 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Wertheim.

Bernhard Ullmann, born November 23, 1809 in Fürth was  merchant and bronze color manufacturer. In 1846 he founded the Bernhard Ullmann & Co leaf metal, bronze paint and brocat factory in Fürth. In 1891, the factory was sold by Isaak Brandeis to Bernhard Ullmann & Co, who moved the business away from Fürth and had the buildings demolished in 1902. In the meantime, the factory was surrounded by residential buildings and could no longer be expanded. In place of the Brandeis factory, the Theresienstr. 4-10 group of apartment buildings was erected.

In the address book of Frankfurt from 1877, the following entry is found: Goldschmidt & Löwenick, Schäfergasse 17, Knopf- und Besatzw. - E. - Anton Julius Isaac Goldschmidt und Sebast. Leonh. Löwenick.

In the register of the city of Augsburg for the year 1912, the following entries can be found: Aufhäuser, Alb., factory owner, part of the company: A. Rosenfelder, Likörfabr.,Schäzlerstr. 15/III, - Aufhäuser Herm., Hopfenhdlr., part of the company: Adolf Rosenfelder, Hermanstr. 23/I . - Adolf Rosenfelder was born on December 22, 1849 in Aufhausen near Bopfingen. His parents were Marx Rosenfelder and Henriette Rosenfelder, née Weil. Adolf Rosenfelder died unmarried on November 2, 1881 at the young age of just under 32. He is buried in the Augsburg Jewish Cemetery.

In the address book of the city of Nürnberg from 1928, the following entry can be found: Kromwell M.E., (owner Alfred Kromwell), Lederhandlung, Königstraße 40.

Schröder & Fränkel was a uniform tailor shop in Karlsruhe with a store at Kaiserstra;e 211 in Karlsruhe. They held the title " Hoflieferant für Militäreffekten und Uniformen.

Kurt Bauchwitz was born in Sangerhausen on January 27, 1881. His parents were Isidor Bauchwitz and Ida Bauchwitz, née Jüdel. Kurt Bauchwitz had 10 brothers and sisters. He himself was a lawyer and notary public by profession. Kurt Bauchwitz was married to Frieda Bauchwitz née Badt,born on 28.10.1891. - died on. 16.04.1940. The couple had 1 daughter - Charlotte, born on 11 April 1915 in Halle. Presumably as a result of the Reich Pogrom Night, Kurt Bauchwitz was taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was there until 16 December 1938 and was assigned to earthworks.