First business of the knitting and knitwear factory in 1870.

Wilhelm Frank (born 1842), father of Emmy Rubensohn, founds a textile factory in Halle in 1865 with his brother Selmar Frank (born 1837). Ten years later, they move their company to Leipzig. Emmy's brother Hermann (born 1875) and Richard, Selmar's son, take over as managing directors.

Richard Frank leads the reestablishment of the Jewish community in Leipzig. 24 Jews were in Leipzig at the end of the war, 250 in November 1945.

Berthold Levy was a member of the Frank family's knitwear factory in Leipzig. He died on April 23, 1939 after a long illness, also as a result of severe mistreatment during 10 days of imprisonment after the Reichsprogromnacht on November 8/9, 1938.

Residential home of Emmy and Ernst Rubsehnsohn from 1936/37-1938.

After the November pogrom in 1938, Ernst Rubensohn was forced to sell his shares in the family company – apparently even at market prices. The couple moved to Berlin, to a villa in Grunewald, to prepare for their own emigration. The Rubensohns had to sell their house in Kassel and almost all of their possessions in order to finance their emigration. Ultimately, their only option was to flee to Shanghai, where they could enter without a visa.

The couple initially lived at Hermannstrasse 3 in Kassel and moved into a spacious villa at Terrasse 13 in the fall of 1914, which they later purchased. In this exclusive residential area, they were in „the best of company“. Neighbors included the families of the Rosenzweig (with Franz Rosenzweig) and Wertheim merchants and the textile manufacturer Baumann.

Emmy Rubensohn received prominent guests from the music, art and culture scene in her salon. She begins to keep a guest book. Emmy Rubensohn heads the music section of the Jewish Cultural Association in Kassel.

Emmy and Ernst Rubensohn's first apartment from 1907: Emmy Rubensohn, born in Leipzig in 1884, marries Ernst Rubensohn on 17.08.1907 and moves in with him in Kassel. From 1913, Emmy's recently divorced brother Alfred Frank entrusted his daughter Dorothea (Dora) to the Rubensohns. The girl, born in 1907, spent her childhood with them.

The Frank family home, Emmy Rubensohn's last apartment in Leipzig before she moved to Kassel to live with her husband Ernst Rubensohn.

Mirjam Pressler, born 18.06.1940 (as Mirjam Gunkel), died on 16.01.2019.

The Hirsch family came to Landshut in the 1890s and built the department store "Hermann Tietz Nachfolger" (management as directors of the department store chain) from 1901. Later, from 1961, the department store "Hertie" (now Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof) was relocated to the new building in Wittstraße (see Google/Streetview view in the links). The former department store is currently home to the perfumery "Douglas". The fashion house Brandl (buyer of the department store) existed in Vilsbiburg until December 31, 2020.

Jacob Eisen was born on July 2, 1879 in Gunzenhausen. His parents were the merchant Heymann Eisen and Jette Eisen, née Schoen. Jacob Eisen had an older sister - Berta, married Groß, born on January 10, 1878. Jacob Eisen married Rosa Neumarck, born in 1876 in Georgensgmünd, daughter of Emmanuel Neumark and Klara, née Gutmann, in Ansbach in 1906. As early as 1907, they acquired the house at Burgstallstra<e 4, rebuilt it and ran a raw materials business there. On August 1, 1908, their daughter Betty was born.

Following the termination of the rental agreement for the former shop in the old town, the Ansbachers found a new home for the textile store on the Isargestade. It existed there until the pogrom night of November 9-10, 1938, when the shop was stormed by SA/SS-NSDAP activists from Landshut, the stock partially looted and then closed.