Isaak Hess (1789-1866) opened an antiquarian bookshop in his hometown of Lauchheim in 1817, which he moved to Ellwangen in 1838. The antiquarian bookshop soon became one of the most important of its time and was continued after Hess' death by his sons Moritz and Sigmund. The building at Schmiedstraße 6 also served as a residence.

Hess also became an early board member of Lauchheim's Jewish community and played an important role in the emancipation of Württemberg's Jews in the 19th century.

Isaak Hess was born in Lauchheim on May 26, 1789. He attended a rabbinical school in Fürth and then worked for several years as a tutor and bookkeeper. In 1817 he founded his own antiquarian bookshop in Lauchheim. In 1838, he moved his antiquarian bookshop to Ellwangen and expanded it with an assortment bookstore. The emancipation efforts of the Württemberg Jews were of particular concern to him. He was a member of a government commission that prepared a law on the political and civil rights of Jews in Württemberg.

Among the known villages and smaller towns in Baden Württemberg, where Jewish settlements existed for shorter or longer periods in the 16th or 17th century, was the village of Röttingen.

Excerpt from the "Description of the Oberamts Neresheim" from the year 1872, last line in the place description "Röttingen": "Jews were once also in Röttingen, still a village street is called the Judengasse."

Aufseß is located in the middle of Franconian Switzerland on the Castle Road and the Franconian Beer Road. The river of the same name flows through the village. 
To the place belong today ten parts of the municipality.

Ignaz Lamm, born on January 13, 1875 in Buttenwiesen was married to Martha, née Pinczower, born on May 13, 1884 in Ratibor. The couple had two sons, Heinrich Lamm, born January 19, 1908 in Munich, and Hans Lamm, born June 8, 1913 in Munich. Shortly before the birth of Heinrich Lamm, the couple had moved from Buttenwiesen to Munich, where Ignaz Lamm was the owner of a metal smelting company and was one of the royal court suppliers.Heinrich Lamm emigrated to the USA as early as 1936. Two years later, on July 16, 1938, Hans Lamm followed his brother into exile in the USA.

In the address book of the city of Suhl from the year 1910, the following entry can be found in the company register section: Levy, David, Inh: Gustav Levy jun. und N. Ottensoser, Schnittwaren- und Lederhandlung, Langebrücke 19.

American troops liberated about 42,000 displaced persons when they entered Hanover on April 10, 1945: civilian forced laborers, prisoners of war, concentration camp inmates. These displaced persons (DPs) had to be cared for, registered, and repatriated to their home countries. The Jewish DP community in Hanover, which at times had more than 1,200 members, was the largest in what is now Lower Saxony after Bergen-Belsen. One of its three large camps ("Camps") was located far outside the city center in the district of Vinnhorst on the Mittelland Canal.