Gertrude Sandmann (16.10.1893 in Berlin – 06.01.1981) was a Berlin artist and women's activist.

<p>Franziska Bruck was a school founder, author and entrepreneur and was born in Ratibor in 1866. She made art with flowers.</p><p>Often it was just a branch in a narrow vase that developed a tremendous life of its own: idiosyncratic, lively, powerful and beautiful. Franziska Bruck refrained from opulent, colorful strands with specially selected flowers. Her bouquets were not constricting, but tried to do justice to the natural beauty of each plant.

Franziska Bruck was a floral artist and revolutionized the craft of flower arranging in Germany. In 1912, she founded a school for flower arranging at Potsdamer Straße 31A in Berlin under the name: Franziska Bruck. School for Floral Decoration. Her courses were aimed at  "professional dressmakers, gardeners, teachers at technical and girls' schools, artists and women working in the home" (from an information brochure). Her floral art was highly praised in various magazines on art and handicrafts (Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Berliner Leben and Dekorative Kunst).

Tom Seidmann-Freud was born on November 17, 1892 in Vienna with the name Martha Gertrud Freud. She moved to Berlin with her family when she was still a child, where they lived at 6 Ansbacher Strasse. When she was around 15, she dropped the name Martha and decided to go by Tom. She enjoyed a good education, studied in London and in Berlin at the 'Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums' and received attention for her artistic work at a very young age. Her first book, the „Baby Liederbuch", was published in 1914.

Elli Hirsch was born in Berlin on March 23, 1873 under the name Aurelie Hirsch. She came from a Jewish family and showed artistic talent at an early age. After leaving school, she trained at the renowned Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, where her talent for illustration and design quickly became apparent.

The ‚Elbe-Sägewerk Schöna GmbH‘ had been owned by Emil Kaim and Albert Seligson from Berlin-Charlottenburg since 1921. They also ran sawmills in Berlin and Breslau. The Kaim couple regularly spent their vacations in their own house in Schöna na. After the Kaims were expelled from the town as Jews, at the end of 1938 the mayor of Sch na put the estate, which had possibly already gone bankrupt due to boycott measures, up for sale or lease.

Siegmund Kohn (born 1874 in Zahrawitz) had lived in Schöna since August 1922 and worked in the Brach tät family's Elbschloss Malzfabrik". In June 1923, Julie Kohn (Kohnova) (birth name unknown; born 1877 in Petrowitz), who was married to Siegmund Kohn, and their son Ernst (born 1903 in Kajlovec) also moved to Schöna. The family lived in an apartment in the malt factory. The Kohn family were Czechoslovakian citizens.

Jacob Myszkinow (born 1895 in Białystok) had lived in Sebnitz since March 1921. In the Sebnitz address books of 1925 and 1934, he was listed as a trader and was registered at Kreuzstraß 23. He was married to the non-Jewish Elisabeth Myszkinow (née Richter). According to the 1940 Sebnitz address book, she worked as a flower worker. Jacob Myszkinow was not listed in the same address book.

From: https://gedenkplaetze.info/juedische-geschichte/jacob-myszkinow