Hermann and Frieda Bach ran the department store H. Bach at Markt 31 in Mittweida until the death of Hermann Bach in 1925. After that  his wife Frieda Bach and son Herbert Bach continued to run the department store. When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the Bach department store also suffered from the boycott calls and had to close in 1935.Herbert Bach continued to operate a small store after the closure. On November 9, 1937, Herbert Bach was killed in a fall from the 2nd floor of the stairwell into the courtyard of the district court.

Isaac Oppenheim, born in 1805 - died in 1872 laid down his Jewish first name after baptism and was henceforth called Julius Ernst Oppenheim. His father Salomon Oppenheim, married to Judith Bondy, was for many years one of the heads of the liberal German Israelite community in Hamburg and chairman of the Advance Institute, which was founded in 1816 as a branch of the Israelite Poorhouse. Julius Ernst Oppenheim was the founder of the parity Jewish-Christian Julius-Ernst-Oppenheim-Stift, which is supported by the Vaterstädtische Stiftung and still exists today.

Next to the Libeskind building and the old building, two garden areas were constructed to create an atmosphere in which visitors* should also feel comfortable outside the exhibition rooms.

The cemetery is located at the main road between Otterstedt and Ottersberg. It can be found at the north edge of the grove "Hainbuchen" at the northeastern edge of the forest.

Eduard Bloch was born on August 20, 1831, and was a theater bookseller, translator, and author.

In 1857 he took over the theater publishing house "Leopold Lassar's Buchhandlung" and transformed it in such a way that it became the first German specialized publishing house for theater literature.

His son Ludwig(1859-1939) took over the management of the publishing house in 1887 and renamed it "Eduard Bloch".

Moses ( Moritz ) Langermann, born on November 29, 1830 in Floß was married to Nathalie, née Obermaier von Steppach. The couple had 8 children. In 1855 Moritz Langermann got the concession of the city of Fürth for a country product shop. In addition to this business, Moritz Langermann was also a partner - owner of a mirror glass factory in Obermurnthal.