The spinning and weaving Bach & Bloch was founded in Mülhausen (Mulhouse) in Alsace.  Helmuth Bloch (born 1893 in Mülhausen) was one of the owners of the textile wholesale " Bach & Bloch ". After the 1st World War, the company was reopened in Augsburg by the sons of the company founders. Other partners were Edmund and Ralph Bach.Helmuth Bloch lived with his family in Augsburg in the Frölichstra;e 14. 1936 Helmuth Bloch emigrated with his family to the USA.

Hertha Fackenheim was born in Kassel on April 1, 1896. She grew up as the daughter of the factory owner Hermann Oppenheim and his wife Rieka in Kassel.

In 1920 she married Alfred Fackenheim. And moved with him to Eisenach. There their daughter Erika was born in 1923.

When the living conditions for the Jewish population in Germany became increasingly difficult, the Fackenheims sent their daughter to Palestine. They wanted to follow her later, but the outbreak of the war prevented their emigration.

Alfred Fackenheim was born on November 9, 1891 in Eisenach. His father was Julius Fackenheim.

Alfred went to school in Eisenach and then learned the profession of a banker. In the First World War he volunteered for military service.

After the end of the war, he opened a private bank in the väterlichen house, the „Heim-Bank“. This went however in the time of the world economic crisis 1929 into bankruptcy.

Alfred married in the year 1920 Hertha Oppenheim.

Auschwitz - A small place near Krakow.-Synonymous with the greatest mass murder and shame of the "civilized" world. 

לעולם אל תשכח

In Miodowa Street in the east of Kaziemierz, lies the „new“ Jüdische cemetery. It was built in 1800, and also in this cemetery gravestones were smashed during the German occupation. A monument was erected from these broken slabs right next to the entrance. On this cemetery even today funerals take place.

In the Jüdischen address book Berlin 1931/32 the following entry is found: Goldschmidt Ivan, Bellevuestraße 8

The Old Synagogue is the eternal, dignified and only well-preserved testimony of the presence of Jews in the city. The first information about them appeared once in 1576 in the treasury accounts, when they paid the poll tax for ten people. But they must have lived here before, according to a town document from 1592, which mentions that their cemetery is ancient, which means that it was very old at that time.

In the Kölner address book 1925 the following entries can be found: Cohen Bernhard, Wittwe, see Kölner Schuhbedarfs-Vertriebsgesellschaft, Hansaring 104.                                       -  Kölner Schuhbedarfs-Vertriebsgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung - ( Geschäftsf: Ww. Bernh. Cohen, née Hess ), Hansaring 104, tel. anno 2260, PSK. 17 700,