Dr. phil. Hugo Panofsky was born on July 10, 1860 in Gliwice (Upper Silesia) as the youngest of 10 children of the merchant Moritz Panofsky and his wife Johanna, née Schlesinger. He had worked as a professor at the Leibnitz Gymnasium in Berlin and was not married. As late as February 1942, he was still taking care of the graves of his mother and five of his siblings, as can be seen from a corresponding invoice. 

Enclosed cemetery with gravestone inventory. 155 recorded graves/stones.

The RVJD moves into the residential and business premises at Laerstraße 9 of the Jewish businesswoman Julie Stern (linen and wool factory) as the headquarters of the Westphalia district office.