Dr. Moses Hommel, born in Schweinfurt in 1869, had already been a member of the Jewish community since 1889, was a member of the Jewish Community Council in 1901 and chairman of the Jewish Community of Schweinfurt from 1914 to 1934. He was the co-founder and deputy president of the Association of Bavarian Jewish Communities in Munich and in the last years before his emigration he was involved in the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. Dr. Moses Hommel had been working as a lawyer since 1918 with the rank of a judicial councilor. His office was located in Luitpoldstraße.

Nothing more is known about the history of a Jewish cemetery in Bergen. The cemetery is said to have still existed as a part of the municipal cemetery in the 1950s.

Fritz Rosenbaum, born on September 4, 1893 in Soest was a nephew of Sabine Rosenbaum, who was co-owner of the Rosenbaum department store at Brüderstraße 30. Due to the denunciation of an employee on the occasion of a derogatory remark about a swastika flag and a bawling SA troop, Sabine Rosenbaum was driven through the streets of Soest in mid-March 1934 with a sign hung around her, "I am an old Jewish woman and have insulted Adolf Hitler's flag." Sabine Rosenbaum died on February 25, 1942 in the St. Ida Hospital in Hovestadt.