Bobby Rootveld (guitar, vocals, percussion) and Sanna van Elst (vocals, recorder, melodica, glockenspiel) play together since 2001 (sometimes with son Levi) under the name „DUO NIHZ“. The name is derived from Dutch and is an abbreviation for „Niet In Het Zwart“ (= Not In Black Clothes). Both performers studied at the Artez Conservatory in Enschede/NL. Originally based in the Netherlands, since 2010 they own a permanent home with concert hall, gallery and course center.

The orphanage was founded in response to the pogroms against the Jewish population after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. In the course of this, the Berlin Relief Committee brought 39 Jewish boys aged 6 to 11 from Russia to Berlin in 1882. For their accommodation, a plot of land was purchased in Pankow at Berliner Strasse 121, which was occupied on October 22, 1882. Free places were filled with orphans from the Jewish community in Berlin.

There was probably an old cemetery, which fell victim to construction work, the beginnings of which are not known, and which was replaced by the current one around 1904.

The Jewish cemetery is located within the general cemetery, opposite the main entrance in its rear part. It is separated from it by a wire mesh fence, the gate is unlocked. At the time of its use it had its own gate to the dirt road behind the cemetery. About 20 gravestones stand on the well-kept grounds.

In the past, the Jews of Iserlohn were not allowed to bury their dead within the city fortifications. The burials therefore took place in front of the city wall on a spoil site near Dicken Turm . In 1743 a building was to be erected there. The cemetery therefore had to be abandoned. A new walled cemetery was established at the pit Gröfeken on the Dördel.[1]

This cemetery was occupied in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was destroyed in 1938, during the Nazi period, and restored after World War II.

The Schwanenberg Jewish Cemetery is located at the end of the village of Lentholt, a hamlet that belongs to Schwanenberg, a district of Erkelenz in the district of Heinsberg near Mönchengladbach (North Rhine-Westphalia).

In Schwanenberg there is a Jewish community since the early 19th century. Presumably, however, there were already Jews in the area since the 16th century.

The de Vries family, for decades at home in Nordhorn and widely branched out as a family, operated a textile trade in Neuenhauser Straße with Benjamin de Vries and his wife Rosa née Cohen. The merchant was regarded in Nordhorn as a noble, friendly and upright person. After Rosa de Vries died in 1923, son Moritz took over her place in the business.

Moritz de Vries married Ella Hopfeld, also from a Nordhorn textile merchant family. Their sons Robert and Paul were born in 1924 and 1926.

The Süskind family was originally based in Neuenhaus. Julius Süskind (b. 1888), however, operated a large used goods trade from Nordhorn, ranging from raw skins to industrial equipment. He lived with wife Ennegje, called „Emilie“, née Jakobs from Werlte as well as the children Siegfried (b. 1929) and Julie (called „Julchen“, b. 1930) the house in the Alkenstiege on the outskirts of the city center of Nordhorn.

The Schaap family had been based in Nordhorn for a long time. After the business in the Ochsenstraße was destroyed in a district fire, the butcher shop moved to the Lingener Straße. There, son Moritz (born 1895) and his wife Erna, née Oppenheimer from Osnabrück, took over the management of the business. Daughter Lina Schaap married Salomon David de Jong from Utrecht and moved to him in the Netherlands.

Max Salomonson, born in 1892 in Nordhorn, ran a prosperous business in the Hauptstra;e, but died very early at the age of 41 in 1933. He was married to Rosetta „Rika“, born 1901 in Werlte Frank. Their daughter Ruth was born in Osnabrück in 1929. She first attended the Altendorf school, but in 1938 she had to leave, like all other Jewish students, because of the order that Jews were not allowed to attend German schools.“ Like the other Jüdische Schüler she attended from then on the castle school.