Siegfried Bastheim was born in Hofgeismar on January 5, 1877, to parents Simon and Sara Bastheim, née Heilbrunn, who ran a shop for agricultural supplies at Petristraße 1 in Hofgeismar. Siegfried Bastheim never met his father. He died a few months before he was born. After completing elementary school, Siegfried Bastheim attended a mechanical engineering school and became an engineer.  Around 1910 he moved to Dortmund and founded the  Dortmunder Kettenfabrik Ingenieur Siegfried Bastheim“ at Münsterstraße 259. In 1921, Simon Bastheim married Ernestine (Erna) Sachs from Breslau.

Salomon Arioni was born on November 20, 1852 in Düsseldorf. His parents were the merchant Raphael Arioni and his wife Philippine, née Hartzfeld. He was married to Gertrude Isabella Wolff of Mainz, daughter of David Wolff and his wife Alwine, née Aaron. Salomon and Gertrude Isabella Arioni had a daughter - Alice, born on January 9, 1892 in Amsterdam, a dentist by profession. Alice Arioni was unmarried and was deported to Auschwitz via the Westerbork camp at the age of 51 and murdered there on August 27, 1943. - - Text of the letter: - Mr. S. Arioni Amsterdam - Büren sw. d. 16.11.97.

Marianne Landau was born Marianne Olga Ehrlich on January 23, 1886 in Berlin. Her parents were the physician, researcher and later Nobel Prize winner Paul Ehrlich and his wife Hedwig, née Pinkus. Marianne Olga Ehrlich was married to the mathematician Edmund Georg Hermann Yehezkel Landau, born on February 14, 1877 in Berlin. His parents were gynecologist Leopold Landau and his wife Johanna, née Jakoby.

Factory owner Eduard Marx, born in 1854, died in February 1904, leaving behind his wife Babette, née Rothschild, born in 1865, and their children-Grete-3 years old, Alfred-5 years old, Julius-9 years old and Leopold-15 years old.Due to Eduard Marx's early death, Babette Marx and the four children suddenly became the sole owners of the Gutmann & Marx mechanical belt and ribbon weaving mill.The widow, who was not only responsible for the upbringing but also for the company, found support in the former co-owner.

The name of the alley "Nahensteig" (or also "Narrensteig") is said to go back to the Hebrew name "Nahar" (Hebrew: Am Bach). In the Middle Ages, a branch of the Isar ran through today's Old Town and flowed in the area of today's Nahensteig. This Mühlbach ran several mills and rejoined the Isar; later the stream was blocked and the mills relocated. (More detailed description in the book by Georg Spitzllberger).

(c) Spitzlberger, Georg: Die Juden im mittelalterlichen Landshut, 1988, p. 189 Ewähnung im Zusammenhang mit dem "Judenbad"

Hugo Karl Hauser was born in Offenburg on 26 August 1880 and after completing his law studies, Dr. Hugo Karl Hauser came to Baden-Baden in 1908 as a partner in the law firm of Dr. Ernst Herrmann.

50 years after Adolf Hirsch built the new department store "Hermann Tietz Nachfolger" in 1900 - 1901, it became the property of "Hertie Waren- und Kaufhaus GmbH" (from 1994 Karstadt, currently "Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof") after its forced sale to the Brandl company.