The Vienna Address Book 1891 contains the following entries: Pollak Emanuel & Sohn, Weingroßhandlung., k.u.k.. Hof-Weinhandlung, Rudolfsheim, Schönbrunnerstra;e 74, Rudolfsheim, Neugasse 8.  -  Pollak Wilhelm, Mariahilferstraße 93, Emanuel Pollak & Sohn, k.u.k.. Hof-Weinhändler. - Text of the postcard - Salzburg, 10.3.1891. - On behalf of Mrs. Pollak I kindly request you to send 10 bottles of good red wine for poor blood by express delivery to the address given - Mr. Regimental Doctor Leopold Herz, Pilsen, Prager Strasse No.

 The Förderkreis Görlitzer Synagoge e.V. was founded in 2004. The association is committed to a use of the building that respects its original purpose. Its goal is the establishment of a "Cultural Forum Görlitz Synagogue"

Sigmund Fischer was the operator of a textile store on Bismarckstrasse in downtown Görlitz. Plündert, the window panes smashed in the pogrom night on November 9, 1938, the Fischers were sent together with the last üsurviving Görlitzer Jews on the transport to Tormersdorf b. Rothenburg / Ol. and from there, further sent to the death camps. The son of Sigmund and Betty Fischer survived the Holocaust überlebt, he lives in Israel.

On a wide park-like plot in the villa district of the Görlitzer Südstadt stands the Villa Arnade which was designed in 1916 by the architect Robert Weber for the Görlitzer leather goods manufacturer Ernst Arnade.

A Jewish quarter and a Jewish population are attested until their expulsion in the 14th century.

The villa at the end of Goethestraße was considered at the time of its construction as the most beautiful Görlitzer Art Nouveau villa, built in 1909 for the ironworker Martin Ephraim. The villa was completed according to the plans of the architect Professor Hugo Behr. During his lifetime, Martin Ephraim was one of the city's greatest men, a city councilor and a member of the Lower Silesian Chamber of Commerce in Gürlitz/Breslau. His life ended in 1944 in Theresienstadt.

In the house, Elisabethstraße 36 in Görlitz Hildegard Burjan was born as Hildegard Lea Freund 1883 and lived there for several years with her family. The father had set up a shop on the first floor.

A commemorative plaque has been unveiled at the birthplace of the Austrian children's and youth author Mira Lobe in Görlitz on Struvestrasse 9. The occasion was the 100th birthday of the writer, who was born Hilde Miriam Rosenthal on September 17, 1913 in the new town. Her best-known work is "Das kleine Ich bin Ich".

With the department store Totschek and also the fashion house Meirowsky arose on the Steinstra;e to this day existing relics of the department store culture at the beginning of the 19th century, which significantly enriched the Görlitzer city center and attracted customers from the entire city perimeter to the shopping pleasure.