Immediately after moving to Wankheim in 1776, four to five Jewish families leased a site outside the village. The site was and is located on the boundary of the district near today's B28 in the area "Schinderklinge". The name indicates that slaughterhouse waste had previously been disposed of there.

The annual rent was three gulden plus for each adult burial two gulden and each child under 14 years one gulden. Only after protracted negotiations could the site be acquired by the Jewish community on March 7,1845, in return for a payment of 200 gulden.

Sofie Potzernheim was born in Fürstenberg on May 4, 1889. In the address book of Berlin she appears for the first time in 1921. She earned her living as a saleswoman. Sofie Potzernheim stayed until shortly before her deportation at Berliner Straße 58. Her last address was today's Mehringdamm 86 in the district of Kreuzberg, at that time Belle-Alliance-Straße 30. On August 15, 1942 Sofie Potzernheim was deported to Riga. Probably Sofie Potzernheim was shot in the forest of Rumbula right after her arrival in the vicinity of Riga.

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.