The name Arnade in Görlitz is permanently associated with the suitcase factory. Its roots go back to 1872. At that time, the 28-year-old company founder Julius Arnade founded a leather goods and suitcase factory. Ten employees were producing until a fire in 1876 on Peterstra;e in the old town. Julius Arnade used the misfortune to rebuild the company on a larger scale in Moys. The upswing of the founding years and the increasing possibilities for travel favored his business.

Built as an Art Nouveau department store "Zum Strauss" by the Jewish merchant Louis Friedländer on the model of the Wertheim department store in Berlin, the Görlitz department store is the only one of its era that still exists today in its original structural form. The building impresses above all with its colossal interior architecture.

The supposed Jüdische bath at the Nikolaiturm, one of the old city gates of the Gürlitzer old town, is located in the approx. 5.20m deep cellar vault of the Nikolaistra;e 5/6. At the beginning of the 1980s, one found the verschüttete drainage system of sandstone and bricks, the Gürlitzer monument conservation restored it subsequently;end. The basin, which is embedded in the floor of the cellar, is fed mainly by water from the Petersquelle spring. Thus, a constant supply of fresh water is guaranteed.

Martin Ephraim was during his lifetime one of the biggest Mäzene of the city, city councilor and member of the Lower Silesian Chamber of Commerce Görlitz/Breslau. His life ended in Theresienstadt. In addition to the Villa Ephraim in Görlitz on Goethestra;e, the Kontorgebäude of the former iron trading company also commemorates the Ephraim family. The administration of the Ephraim Eisenhandelsgesellschaft was once located in the house at Zittauer Stra&szlig 64. A Stolperstein in memory of Martin Ephraim was accompanied in the presence of family members from Dresden, the USA and UK.

In the address book of the city of Bayreuth from 1884, the following entry can be found in the alphabetical list of residents: Würzburger Jakob, Herrenkleidermagazin.

The Jewish community in Görlitz is considered extinct since the 2nd World War. Persecuted, expelled, or murdered in the years 1933-1945, the fates of the former Jewish inhabitants are accordingly changeable.

The merchant Leo Cohen moved in 1929 with his wife and their daughter from their first marriage into the newly built house Goetheplatz 1. In 1933 the family emigrated to Palästina.

The first post-medieval synagogue was built by the emancipated Jewish community in 1847 under the influence of the legislation of the Prussian King in a building in the backyard of the hotel „es Roß“ at Obermarkt 17. On 20.9.1853 the house of worship was occupied. The entrance was made üvia Langenstraße 23, through the school garden of the Bürgerschule built in 1846. The rebuilt rear building at Obermarkt 17 had previously been a society theater.