Friedrich Hopfeld operated with his wife Friedel née Moses at Nordhorn's Bahnhofstraße a well going textile business, according to self-advertisement: "Kaufhaus Hopfeld". Their daughter Helga was born in 1930 in Nordhorn.

The house Prollstra;e 5 (formerly Groüe Gartenstra;e 15) was declared a „Judenhaus“, i.e. all Jewish families still remaining in Nordhorn had to take up residence here from 1938. After the Süskind family had moved to Neuenhaus, these were only the old Oster couple and the Frank-de Vries family living in this house with their father-in-law Salomon de Vries. His age, combined with physical weakness, was the reason why the family had not fled, but initially remained in Nordhorn.

Only a short distance from the synagogue, Hijman Cohen and his wife Grietje, née Goldstein, both from the Netherlands, had been running a slaughterhouse with a focus on horse slaughtering since about 1910. The first children were still born in Enschede (Nathan, Hendrika and Rachel), another four in the münsterländische Ochtrup (Samuel, Salomon, Isaak and Jakob).

When Hijman and Grietje Cohen retired to Enschede in the 1920s, their son Isaak took over the family butcher store together with Margarete, née Gottschalk.

Originally, the Nordhorn Jewish community had two cemeteries, both located on Bentheimer Straße.
The old cemetery at Bentheimer Straße 183 was used until about 1864. In the course of road planning, this cemetery had to be closed - and a new cemetery on the other side of Bentheimer Straße 182b was occupied from 1864, where the graves are aligned to the east or southeast.

In the Kreisadreßbuch Arnswalde/Friedeberg und die Dörfer, sowie Güter der beiden Kreise aus dem jahr 1925 findet sich folgender Eintrag: Aronheim; Julius; Fa. Inh. Isodor Aronheim; Kaufmann, Getreidegeschäft.; Mittelstr. 72. -  Aronheim; Max; Kaufmann, Mittelstr. 72; Reetz; Arnswalde;  -  Aronheim; Emma; Ehefrau, Mittelstr. 72; Reetz; Arnswalde;

Bernhard Kolb - The Jews in Nürnberg 1839 - 1945 - edited by Gerhard Jochem - In a directory of foundations [1867 - 1931]  for the Nürnberger Kultusgemeinde is in 1930 a foundation with 47 000 Marks registered founder August Ney. In the residents' book Nürnberg 1928 is the following entry : Ney August, Metallwerk u. ...., Ebenseestraße 23.

In the Jüdisches Adressbuch Frankfurt 1935 the following entries are found: Mai & Co, Kleiderfabrik, Kaiserstraße 64. -  Mai, Moses, Kleiderfabrik, a) Beethovenstraße 14,- b) Kaiserstraße 64.