Among the Schutzjuden recorded in Mecklenburg to Röbel finds in the year 1832  following entry -  " Salomon Samson - open shopkeeper ".

The hexagram is known since ancient times as a - not originally Jewish - symbol for the defense of Bösem. The legendary King David is said to have carried it on his shield, and so explains the common name "Star of David" or actually "Shield of David" (Hebrew Magen David).

Dr. phil. Max Martin Sigmund Heinemann was born in Berlin as the son of the teacher Adolf Heinemann and his wife Martha, née Bamberger. Orphaned at an early age, he was financially supported by relatives on his mother's side, owners of the Tannenbaum, Pariser & Co. Luckenwalde cloth factory, to attend school and university. He had been married since April 1917 to Mathilde Hermeter (2.7.1878 Rosenheim - 4.12.1943 Leipzig). She and her daughter Anna Veronika (1896-1942) converted to the Jewish faith in February 1917. Anna Veronika married Dr. phil. Max Hofmann (1886-1966) on Nov.

With the consolidation of the neo-orthodox Jewish community in Halberstadt, it undertook various conversion and new building projects after 1850: After the Klaussynagoge (1857/58), the Gemeindesynagoge (1879), the Gemeindemikwe (1891/92), the third cemetery (1895/96) and the school (1899), on December 22, 1912, the Jewish retirement home „Newe Menucha“ (Hebrew for the elderly) was opened. December 1912 in the Wilhelmstraße 15 - on the initiative of the families Baer and Meyer - also the Jewish old people's home „Newe Menucha“ (Hebrew „source of rest“) was inaugurated.