The property on Salomonstra;e in the city center of Görlitz was built around 1883 with a residential and commercial building including a rear building. The cloth manufacturer Louis Stiasny had the rear building rebuilt in 1893. He used it as a salesroom for the scarves, bags, neckerchiefs and other accessories for ladies that he produced. Because of the building situation, only the courtyard side could be provided with windows, Stiasny had a glass-roofed atrium designed.

The beginnings of the Ephraim hardware store date back to the middle of the 19th century. In 1902 the company moved to the site with a railway siding behind the Schützenhaus on Zittauer Strasse. Iron and iron structures of the Ephraim Eisenhandlung were used for well-known new buildings in Gürlitz before 1914: hospital, new barracks, hall of fame, joint-stock brewery, town hall, department store, town theater and also the hall complex of the Ephraim Eisenhandelsgesellschaft at the Schützenhaus in Gürlitz Südstadt.

The name Arnade in Görlitz is permanently associated with the suitcase factory. Its roots go back to 1872. At that time, the 28-year-old company founder Julius Arnade founded a leather goods and suitcase factory. Ten employees were producing until a fire in 1876 on Peterstra;e in the old town. Julius Arnade used the misfortune to rebuild the company on a larger scale in Moys. The upswing of the founding years and the increasing possibilities for travel favored his business.

Built as an Art Nouveau department store "Zum Strauss" by the Jewish merchant Louis Friedländer on the model of the Wertheim department store in Berlin, the Görlitz department store is the only one of its era that still exists today in its original structural form. The building impresses above all with its colossal interior architecture.

The supposed Jüdische bath at the Nikolaiturm, one of the old city gates of the Gürlitzer old town, is located in the approx. 5.20m deep cellar vault of the Nikolaistra;e 5/6. At the beginning of the 1980s, one found the verschüttete drainage system of sandstone and bricks, the Gürlitzer monument conservation restored it subsequently;end. The basin, which is embedded in the floor of the cellar, is fed mainly by water from the Petersquelle spring. Thus, a constant supply of fresh water is guaranteed.

Martin Ephraim was during his lifetime one of the biggest Mäzene of the city, city councilor and member of the Lower Silesian Chamber of Commerce Görlitz/Breslau. His life ended in Theresienstadt. In addition to the Villa Ephraim in Görlitz on Goethestra;e, the Kontorgebäude of the former iron trading company also commemorates the Ephraim family. The administration of the Ephraim Eisenhandelsgesellschaft was once located in the house at Zittauer Stra&szlig 64. A Stolperstein in memory of Martin Ephraim was accompanied in the presence of family members from Dresden, the USA and UK.

In the address book of the city of Bayreuth from 1884, the following entry can be found in the alphabetical list of residents: Würzburger Jakob, Herrenkleidermagazin.

The Jewish community in Görlitz is considered extinct since the 2nd World War. Persecuted, expelled, or murdered in the years 1933-1945, the fates of the former Jewish inhabitants are accordingly changeable.