Moritz Redelmeier was married to Frieda Redelmeier, née Apfel. The couple had two daughters - Margot Redelmeier, born on 14.09.1913 in Halle and Ruth Redelmeier - Lichtenstein, born in 1918 in Halle a.S. Moritz Redelmeier ran a feed and grain business in Halle.  Margot Redelmeier, an accountant by profession emigrated to the USA on 31.05.1939. Her sister Ruth emigrated to the USA already in 1936. Moritz Redelmeier died on February 04, 1937 in Halle. His wife Frieda Redelmeier was deported from Kassel via Lublin/Poland to Sobibor on June 1, 1942.

The merchant and later factory owner Arthur Michaelis, born on 28.09.1859 in Königsberg married on 16.02.1888 in Munich Frieda Michaelis, née Obermeyer (also: Obermaier), daughter of the Munich merchant Hirsch Obermeyer and Sophie Obermeyer, née Marx. The couple had 3 daughters - Theodora, born on 10.10.1890, Elsa, born on 16.01.1892 and Erna, born on 30.11.1896. Arthur Michaelis was the founder of the machine factory A. Michaelis KG, which specialized in the manufacture of laundry and plating machines. His wife Frieda Michaelis was a partner in the machine factory.

Hugo Schaye, born on 05.09.1864 in Görlitz/ Silesia resident in Görlitz Deportation destination: 27.07.1942, Ghetto Theresienstadt Death date/place: 28.07.1942, Ghetto Theresienstadt

Elsbeth Schaye, née Rubensohn born on 30.11.1871 in Bernsee/ Brandenburg resident in Görlitz Deportation destination: 27.07.1942, Ghetto Theresienstadt Death date/place: 03.01.1943, Ghetto Theresienstadt

Ruth Schlesinger was born on January 26, 1921 in the Berlin district of Neukölln as the daughter of the married couple Georg and Marie-Helene Schlesinger. As the daughter of a Jewish father and a Protestant mother, she was later to be classified by the National Socialists as „half-Jüdin“. So was her brother Günter, who was born on April 10, 1924. Both, however, were raised Lutheran. At the age of six she moved with her parents to Görlitz. Here the parents had already married on September 10, 1919. The family lived in an apartment in the house at Mittelstra;e 17.

Cohn, Jonas 

Philosopher, psychologist, and pädagoge, * Dec. 2, 1869 Görlitz, † Jan. 12.1947 Birmingham

Jonas Cohn  was born in 1869 in Görlitz as älteste son of the married couple Phillip Cohn (1829 Kreuzberg/Schlesien - 1879 Görlitz) and Anna Gottschalk (1846 Märkisch-Friedland - 1907 Berlin). After studies from 1888 in Leipzig, Berlin, Heidelberg and doctorate in systematic botany Berlin 1892 C. habilitated in 1897 for philosophy and pedagogy in Freiburg (Breisgau).

Avital Ben-Chorin was born February 25 1923 in Eisenach as Erika Fackenheim. She was an Israeli Hebrew teacher, translator, literary secretary and publicist. She lived and worked in Jerusalem. Together with her husband, Shalom Ben-Chorin, she was a pioneer of German-Israeli youth exchange and co-founder of the first Jewish Reform congregation in Israel. She was married to Shalom Ben-Chorin from 1943 until his death in 1999. The couple has a daughter, Ariela, who was born in 1958.