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Rudolf Conitzer was born in 1851 in Jeschewo, a small village outside Schwetz. His father Moses Conitzer had a small department store there. Rudolf worked in this department store from the age of 13 and helped his father to expand the business for the next 14 years.

In 1878, Rudolf Conitzer founded his own company under the name Kaufhaus Rud. In 1911, it was the largest business in the area. After the end of the First World War, it was closed for several years until it was sold for a third of its value in 1929. The house still stands on the market square today.

Worship services were held in the home and business premises of Mendel Nathan - head of the Jewish community of Bodenteich-Hankensbüttel-Wittingen from 1863 to 1874. The Nathan fashion and textile business had existed since 1809. His descendants had a new residential and commercial building built here in 1912 by the Celle architect Otto Haesler, who is considered one of the leading architects of modernism.

The Munich address book of 1891 contains the following entries: Erlanger Moses ( Erlanger & List ) merchant, Schommerstr.13/2 - Erlanger & List, Weiß, Woll- u. Strohhutgeschäft, Einlaß 3/1 - List Mart. ( Erlanger & List ) merchant, Parkstr.3/1 - Moses Erlanger changed his residence  several times - 1892 Schwanthalerstr.11/1, - 1893 - Senefelderstr.11/2 -  1900 - Bayerstr.33/3rd - In the Munich address book 1913 the following entry: Erlanger & List, Weiß,-Wolle- und Srohhutmanufakt., (owner Gustav Henle u. Jos. Hermann) Schillerstr.34. From 1916 owner Gustav Henle.

Bernhard Hausner was born on May 21, 1853 in Oettingen. His parents were the Munich furrier Josua Hausner and his wife Babette, née Goldschmidt. Bernhard had four more siblings - Josef, born on December 3, 1844 in Oettingen, died on November 20, 1935 in Munich, - Sara, born on March 25, 1850 in Oettingen, died on October 7, 1850 in Oettingen, Moritz, born on April 26, 1850 in Oettingen, and - his wife Babette, née Goldschmidt.

Berta Sommerfeld née Mottek (1898–1943) came from Samter (province of Posen). She and her husband Bruno ran a textile business in Quedlinburg, which was destroyed in the course of the November pogroms in 1938. They later moved to Berlin. From there, Berta Sommerfeld was deported to Auschwitz extermination camp on March 1, 1943 and murdered just a few days later on March 13.

Julius Koretzky was born on October 26, 1893 in Berdychiv/Ukraine. He came to Quedlinburg as a prisoner of war after the First World War. He married Elise Schumann and founded a tobacco business. In 1940, he was deported to the Gro -Rosen concentration camp in Sachsenhausen and murdered there on November 8, 1941.

Isidor Goldschmidt was born on September 27, 1846 in Lemförde.His parents were the Lemförder merchant Samuel Goldschmidt and his wife Johanna Goldschmidt née Cohn.1872/73 Isidor Goldschmidt married Fanny Katzenstein, a native of Rinteln, daughter of the merchant Hermann Katzenstein and his wife Schönchen.

Sigmund Glesinger was born on December 6, 1863 in Ostrau, Saalkreis in Saxony-Anhalt. His parents were Joseph Philipp Glesinger, born on March 2, 1838, and his wife Charlotte, née Ripper, born on April 6, 1840. Sigmund Glesinger was married to Maria Glesinger, née Frank, born on October 28, 1896 in Cologne.

Willy Wertheimer remembers in his book " Willi Wertheimer: Zwischen zwei Welten. Der Förster in Brooklyn." about his time from March 1919 to 1924 as a teacher in the Jewish community of Eubigheim and also mentions a Miss Hannchen Buxbaum, who owned a small cottage next to the synagogue.