Born in 1919, Siegbert Rotholz received an exclusion certificate as early as 1938, which stated that he was no longer allowed, or rather required, to join the Wehrmacht. In 1942 he was obliged to work as a forced laborer in a bakery and in the same year he received a police permit to use public transport.

These measures against Jewish citizens resulted from the Nuremberg Laws, from 01.01.1936. These laws said, among other things, that Jewish citizens were no longer allowed to use public transportation and were no longer allowed to work.

Born on March 19, 1865, in Neustettin, German citizen Adolf Bandmann lived with his Christian wife Frieda Bandmann, née Richter, and daughter Grete Bandmann at 4a Theklastrasse. Conscripted between 1935-1938, he lived there until his admission to the hospital of the Jewish community in Wedding on April 28, 1940. He died four days later at 10:30 p.m. in the hospital of cardiomyopathy. Adolf held a doctorate and practiced medicine until his retirement. In 1939 he received a penalty order from the Gestapo in the amount of 20 RM (about 75 €) or a prison sentence of 4 days.

The department store was built by the Wertheim Group from 1928 to 1930 according to plans by architect Hermann Dernburg on Schweidnitzer Stra e and on Tauentzienplatz. It had the first escalators in Silesia and was considered the largest department store in the city. In the course of Germany-wide aryanization, the National Socialists broke up the company in 1937. Most members of the Wertheim family fled to the USA. The department store passed into the hands of the Allgemeine Warenhaus Gesellschaft (AWG).

In the address book of the city of Hildesheim from the year 1895 the following entry is found - Katzenstein, Hartwig, Kaufmann, Obere Marktstraße 54

HERE LIVED SALLY MAIER, JG. 1892, FLEW 1939, FRANCE

HERE LIVED ROSEL MAIER, GEB. BICKART, Y.o.b. 1894, FLUCHT 1939, FRANCE

HERE LIVED SIEGBERT MAIER, YEAR 1920, CURSION 1938, FRANCE

HERE LIVED SIMON MAIER, Y.o.b. 1857, DEPORTED 1940, GURS, DEAD 17.11.1940

HERE LIVED SOFIE MAIER, GEB. HILB, JG. 1862, DEPORTED 1940, GURS, DEAD 2.12.1940 

HERE LIVED MORITZ WERTHEIMER, JG. 1890, FLIGHT 1936, FRANCE

HERE LIVED HERMINE WERTHEIMER, GEB. WEILL, YEAR 1894, FLIGHT 1936, FRANCE

HERE LIVED HEINZ JOSEF, WERTHEIMER, YEAR 1921, CURSION 1936, FRANCE

HERE LIVED BERTY MARGOT WERTHEIMER, YEAR 1922, CURSION 1936, FRANCE

HERE LIVED ISAAK WERTHEIMER, YEAR 1890, CURSION 1936, FRANCE

HERE LIVED ELSA DREIFUS, GEB. WERTHEIMER, JG. 1886, DEPORTED 1940, GURS, INTERNED DRANCY, 1942 AUSCHWITZ, MURDERED 31.8.1942

HERE LIVED ERNESTINE NACHMANN, JG. 1884, UNAUTHORIZED, DARMSTADT, DEATH 19.1.1941

HERE LIVED IDA NACHMANN, JG. 1880, UNFREEWILLIG VERZOGEN, DARMSTADT, DEAD 5.6.1942

HERE LIVED MAX NACHMANN, Y.o.b. 1910, FLIGHTED 1935, PORTUGAL

Jacques Dienstag, who had his last freely chosen residence at Bahnhofstraße 44, was the manager of the Knopf department store in Kaiserstraße. When the department stores of the Freiburg Knopf family were "Aryanized" (the Rastatt department store was then taken over by the Duchateau family and was known as "KD" to many Rastatters), Jacques Dienstag had to give up his post. He was deported in 1940 and murdered in Auschwitz on August 31, 1942.