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The Alsberg department store, today called Kaufhaus Kortum, is built in the years 1913-1921 by the Cologne department store company of the Jewish Alsberg brothers. The department store opened in 1921 and was at that time the first department store in Bochum with 31 shop windows and 64 sales departments.
. In the course of the Aryanization in 1933 the name Alsberg disappeared from the public. The department store was now named after the doctor and poet Karl Arnold Kortum. The house remained in the ownership of the Alsberg family until 1938.

The Jewish cemetery in Erp was occupied from about 1868 to 1914. There are only seven gravestones left. The cemetery plot was originally 31.34 Ar in size. 
   
Since 1952, the cemetery has been owned by the Jewish Trust Corporation. In February 2004, the cemetery was desecrated. A memorial stone is present. The cemetery is located about 100 meters south of the main road 265 in the direction of Weiler in der Ebene. It is freely accessible, as it is not (anymore) fenced.  

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In 1906 Hugo Landauer had opened a store with manufactured goods in Augsburg, which later became the department store of Landauer Bros. Goods stores of the Landauer company existed in several cities, the parent company was located in Stuttgart; the store in Augsburg, however, was considered the most important. During the Nazi era, the department store was forcibly "Aryanized".

In the Middle Ages, we learn of a synagogue in the Old Town (first mentioned in 1314 and last in 1427) and a synagogue in the Ilzstadt on the banks of the Ilz (until its destruction in 1478) on the site of St. Salvator's Church.
 
In the 19th/20th century (until the Nazi era) there was probably no prayer room. Possibly, community members met at times to hold services in one of the Jewish houses. Otherwise, services were attended in Straubing.  
   

Tombstones of the medieval cemetery ("Judensteine") can be found, among others. in Riegeldorf (from 1240, 1249), in Kelheim (from 1249), in Mintraching (1294, Catholic rectory, garden), Wolkering (wall around the church, right of the gate), Mangolding (Catholic church, left of the entrance), Tegernheim (Catholic rectory, right of the entrance), Karthaus-Prüll, Cham (town hall, stone from 1230, see page on Cham), Straubing, Neustadt a.d. Donau. A stone from 1273 was discovered in 1929 in the terrace of the new parish church (Neupfarrkirche) built on the site of the synagogue in 1519.

After the end of World War II, numerous survivors of concentration camps were taken into DP camps (camps of displaced persons) in Regensburg and the surrounding area (US zone) on the basis of the authorization of the American military administration. They were joined by survivors from Poland who had fled new pogroms in Poland (1946). In 1945, a Jewish DP (Displaced Persons) community (Jewish Community) was founded in Regensburg, whose chairmen were Jakob Gottlieb and Efraim Brenner.

The "Knabenpensionat" had been founded by the preacher Hermann Hirsch in 1917, when Hirsch had returned from his deployment in the First World War. Just two years after the founding of the boarding school, the villa at Hohe Straße 30 was owned by Hermann Hirsch. The boys' boarding school was to provide a home for boys who were attending secondary school in Coburg. Hermann Hirsch worked at the boarding school as a religion teacher.

As part of the renovation of the Bayreuth synagogue and community center, a mikvah, a ritual immersion bath, was also built. Participants in the financing of the mikvah were, among others, the Free State of Bavaria, the Bavarian State Foundation, the Upper Franconia Foundation and the City of Bayreuth.