There was an old cemetery In den Gärten" from 1839. Although it was designated as a cemetery, it was not used. The municipality had to sell it in 1938.

The new cemetery Am Sandberg was occupied from 1832 to 1940. There are 53 gravestones here today.

In 1876, the brothers Max and Detmar Schwarz founded the company Samuel Schwarz Sarns, Mechanical Weaving Mill at 6 Zeulenrodaer Strasse. Her father Samuel Schwarz (1810-1889) settled in Greiz in 1840 as one of the first Jewish businessmen. In 1894 Detmar Schwarz left the company and left Greiz, whereupon his brother renamed the company „Samuel Schwarz Sohn, Offene Handelsgesellschaft“. After the death of Max Schwarz in 1922, the company was transformed into a limited partnership.

In the Jüdisches Adressbuch für Groß-Berin edition 1931/1932 the following entry is found - Baruch Philipp, Wilmersdorf, Kaiserallee 47.

Since 1926 at the latest, the Jewish businessman Hans Kramer (*15 September 1893), his wife Hilde Kramer (née Rindskopf, *29 January 1900) and their two children Anneliese and Walter lived at Elsterstraße 7. Before that, Hans Kramer lived with his brother Willy and his father Hugo at Oststraße 50. Hans' mother, Friederike Kramer (née Dalber), lived only a few houses away at Elsterstraße 11a.

The Jewish International School - Masorti Elementary School was established in 2018 with the desire to give Jewish children a sense of self-evidence in living out Judaism and culture. In doing so, the all-day school serves children in grades 1 through 6, and the languages of instruction include German, Hebrew and English.

Masorti e.V also offers two day care centers for children. For more information visit the website of Masorti e.V.

In the Oststraße 50 lived since spätestens 1921 the Jewish businessman Willy (Wilhelm) Kramer (*1892) with his wife Luise Kramer (née Wolf) and their three children Gaby, Peter and Hugo. Willy Kramer was a partner and co-owner of the company „Franz Müller & Kramer“ and thus succeeded his father, who had joined the company as such in 1888. In 1937, the family lived at Bismarckstraße 50, to which Oststraße 50 was renamed in 1936.

In 1840, Franz Wilhelm Müller founded a textile printing shop at Elsterstrasse 11 in Greiz, which was later joined by a mechanical weaving mill. In 1881, the founder's son took Hugo Kramer on as a personally liable partner in the company, which from then on called itself Franz Müller & Kramer“. Hans (*1893) and Willy Kramer (*1892) followed in their father's footsteps and also became partners in the company. When the pressure on the Jewish businessmen became too great for the Kramers, they left the company in 1938 and emigrated from Germany.

In the address book of the city of Düsseldorf from 1902 is the following entry - J. Neumann (Inh. Berthold Neumann and Wwe. Julie Neumann,Berlin) Cigarrengeschäft, Communicationsstra;e 9.

The Landauer department store was directly adjacent to the town hall. Leo David, from Stettin, was the last Jewish owner of the department store. In the course of Aryanization, the department store was reopened as " Deutsches Geschäft " ( Stöckler & Co ) on March 1, 1936.