The brothers Ilia, Paul and Daniel Hepner

Born in Bialystok, the merchant Ilia Hepner (1885-1933) came to Berlin with several siblings and relatives around 1920. His family, who had previously lived in Kiev, had fled to Germany to escape the civil war in Ukraine. In the fall of 1921, he bought two houses in Berlin-Charlottenburg: at Waitzstr. 4 and Clausewitzstr. 1.

The Old Jewish Cemetery in Teplice was located to the east of the historic center of Teplice on the Judenberg between today's Chelčického and Jungmannova streets.

It was established in 1669. Three gravestones with bones from the first abolished medieval Jewish cemetery were moved there. The Old Jewish Cemetery was closed in 1862, after a new Jewish cemetery was established at the Styrian cemetery.

At that time, there were 929 gravestones in the cemetery, including a number of valuable Renaissance and Baroque gravestones.

The Kiev-born lawyer Dr. Salomon Hepner (1893-1943) probably came to Berlin in 1921 with his wife Berta, née Weller (1901-1982), his son Charles (1920-2008), his parents and numerous family members. The couple were recognized as Russian war refugees in 1925. From 1927-33, the small family was registered at Bayerische Str. 8.

The roots of the R.J.Mayer shoe factory lay in the opening of a leather and country goods trade by Rafael Julius Mayer from Mönchsroth together with his sons Julius, David and Gustav Mayer. In 1895, the Rafael Julius Mayer shoe factory was established with the partners Gustav and David Mayer at Vordere Schmiedgasse 20 in Gmünd. Julius Mayer, born October 19, 1858, married Regina, née Lehmann, born June 20, 1866 in Wengheim.

Simon Guthmann von Hamm, born in 1836  was married to Emilie Heidweyer von Worms, born in 1839. He came to Worms in the middle of the 19th century and settled at Paulusstra e 3 as a malt manufacturer and grain merchant. Simon and Emilie Guthmann had four children - Bernhard, born on 1.9.1862 in Worms, - Rosa, - born on 7.5.1866 in Worms, Ludwig, born on 24.8.1871 in Worms  and Max, born on 11.5.1874 in Worms.

In Greven's Adreßbuch von Köln und Umgegend, Adreßbuch der Kreise Köln-Land, sowie von Bensberg, Bergisch-Gladbach und Porz aus dem Jahr 1933 findet folgende Eintrag - Gebr. Fried & Alsberg, Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, ( Geschäftsführ.Siegfr. and Dr. jur. Alfr. Alsberg and Karl Jak. and Otto Fried and Alfr. Rosenstein, here, Franz Goldmann, Berlin, Moritz Klein and Max Simon, Düsseldorf ) (E) Textilwarengroßhandlung, Am Neumarkt 8  10 (entrance: Richmondtraße).

The address book of the factory and trading town of Chemnitz from 1920 contains the following entry: Doerzbacher J. (Fa.) - Strumpf- und Handschuhfabrik, Platanenstraße 2a. EG., owner Max Doerzbacher.  -  Hedwig Doerzbacher, née Kohn, born 1883, widow of the Chemnitz hosiery manufacturer Max Doerzbacher was deported to the Belzyce ghetto on May 10, 1942 and subsequently murdered. A stumbling stone at Ahornstra&;e 32 in Chemnitz commemorates the fate of Hedwig Doerzbacher.