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Alexander Moritz Simon (originally Moses Simon), born on November 27 1837 in Hanover and died on January 29 1905 also in Hanover, was a banker and American vice consul. In 1892, he founded the community center with teacher training, boarding school, day nursery and religious school at Ohestraße 8/9 and later the Israelite Horticultural School Ahlem to improve the living conditions of his Jewish brothers and sisters.

Andreas Löw, born on July 7, 1888 in Eger was murdered on January 3, 1940 in Flossenbürg.

The mathematician Emmy Noether was born in this house in Erlangen on March 23, 1882. As a woman of Jewish faith, she never received the recognition in Germany that her important scientific work deserved.

The singer-songwriter Anna Depenbusch dedicated the song "Eisvogelfrau" to her.

The Klopfer family lived on the second floor of the property at Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 19 (formerly Kaiserstraße 19) at the end of the 19th century. The family, originally from Hürben, had moved to Augsburg in the early 1860s, where they first lived at Untere Karolinenstra<e D 84 and then at Steingasse D 55. Until his retirement in 1892, Elias Klopfer was a partner in the banking house „Gebrüder Klopfer“ in Steingasse, which he had founded together with his brother Benno in 1862. Elias Klopfer died in Augsburg in 1899, his widow Helene in Munich in 1902.

The historic house in Askanische Straße (Hospitalstraße until 1887) no longer exists today. The house where Moses Mendelssohn was born, which was located in the center of the former Jewish quarter, was demolished in 1952. Today there is a block of flats on the site. A memorial plaque has commemorated Mendelssohn since 1880. The white marble plaque was newly installed in 1979.

At the address Prinzregentenstra e 66 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf was the house where the important Jewish writer, literary critic, essayist and philosopher Walter Benjamin lived from 1930 until his forced emigration in 1933.

Walter Benjamin was born on July 15, 1892 and died on September 27, 1940. During this time in Berlin, Benjamin worked on his autobiographical work »Berlin Childhood around 1900«, in which he reflected on his childhood and youth in the Wilhelmine capital. Parts of this work were written during his stay at Prinzregentenstra<e 66.

The writer and satirist Alexander "Roda Roda", born Sándor Friedrich Rosenfeld, lived at Innsbrucker Stra e 44 from 1920 to 1933. 
He was a prominent humorist and publicist during the Weimar period, wrote for humorous magazines such as Simplicissimus and was well connected in Berlin's cultural life. After the National Socialists seized power, he was forced to leave Germany and emigrated to the USA via Switzerland.

Albert Einstein lived at Haberlandstra<e 5 – today Haberlandstra<e 8 – from around 1917 to 1932. The original house was destroyed during the Second World War, but a stele on the current building commemorates his former home.

Einstein was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and was one of Berlin's most famous scientists. He worked in his apartment, wrote scientific texts and received guests from the worlds of science and culture, including Max Planck, Max Liebermann and Charlie Chaplin. He lived here with his wife Elsa Einstein and their family.

Dr. Leo Masur, a veterinarian who was even awarded the Iron Cross during the First World War for rescuing wounded cavalry horses, lived here. Despite this, he was deported together with his wife in 1943, first to Auschwitz and later to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1945.

His wife Henriette Masur, born in Leipzig in 1885 and owner of a hotel and boarding house, was also deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and murdered there. Even her classification as an „Aryan“ according to the National Socialist racial laws could not save her.