Apartment/Flat

Laura Jonas, née Loewenthal, was born on October 23, 1867 in Jastrowie (German: Jastrow). Her husband Simon Sigismund Jonas, was born on February 13, 1866 in Rogoźno (German: Rogasen). The Jonas couple moved from Wrocław (German: Breslau) to Dresden in 1921, where Simon Sigismund Jonas ran a successful retail business for cigars. Their four children also lived here. Mr. and Mrs. Jonas initially lived at Reichsplatz 1 (first floor) in 1921; in 1925 they moved to the first floor of Haydnstra<e 16.

Erich Max Isakowitz was born in Königsberg in 1891. He studied in Königsberg and Munich and then worked as a doctor and dentist. His studies were interrupted by his participation in the First World War. Sofie Isakowitz, née Berlowitz, was born in 1893 in Tschernyschewskoje (German: Eydtkuhnen) and was the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Hannelore Isakowitz, known as Lore, was born in 1915 in Sowetsk (German: Tilsit), a small town in what was then East Prussia and is now Russia.

Samuel Husch was born on February 1, 1868 in Pobiedziska (German: Pudewitz) in what is now Poland. He was married to Therese Husch, née Neumann. The couple had three children: Hans, Werner and Annelies, later married to Scholz. They divorced in 1922. Mr. Husch was a merchant and ran a grain wholesale business until 1936. His sons Hans and Werner emigrated to Chile in 1937 and 1938, where they died in 1950 and 1970. Until June 1942, Mr. Husch lived in his spacious apartment on Franklinstrasse.

Leo Silbermann was born on April 18, 1895 in Łódź, his wife Rosa, née Semmel, on December 3, 1900 in Stanislau. Leo had been in Germany since 1923 and worked as a commercial clerk and cashier, his wife Rosa was a cleaner. The couple's wedding was announced in the synagogue for October 10, 1926. On September 8, 1927, their daughter Margot Felicja was born, who later attended a Jewish school.

Thea Fantl, née Katz, was born on October 1, 1908 or 1910 in Beuthen (Bytom) in Upper Silesia.
She married Emil Liebermann in 1928. The couple moved to Dresden together with their first son Klaus Peter, who was born on August 25, 1932 in Breslau (Wrocław). Her husband worked there as a self-employed sales representative. The Liebermanns had three more children in Dresden: Gabriele Ruth (June 2, 1934), Wolfgang Dietrich (June 30, 1937) and Denny (September 30, 1939).

Bertha Grün was the wife of Rabbi Dr. Samuel Grün, who was rabbi in Oberdorf am Ipf  from 1887 - 1893. Bertha Grün, née Zeisel was born on December 12, 1851 in Burgbergstein in Mähren  Bertha Zeisel's parents were Eduard Zeisel von Lomnitz and his wife Betty, née Häutler, remarried Schick. Berta Zeisel and Samuel Grün married on February 13, 1877 in Tischnowitz near Brünn. The couple had two children - Eduard, born on June 20, 1880 in Znojmo and Irma, born on October 8, 1881 in Znojmo.

Karl Adler was born on January 25, 1890 in Buttenhausen, a district of the municipality of Münsingen. In 1902, he began his training at the Protestant Teachers' Seminary in Esslingen. After his teacher's examination, he was employed as a head teacher and teacher at an Israelite school. In 1910 he began his studies at the Royal Conservatory in Stuttgart. He then became a singer at the Stuttgart Court Theater. In 1940, he, his wife and his parents emigrated to the USA. From 1946 to 1968, he worked as a music professor at Yeshiva University, a conservative Jewish university.

The first rabbi of the newly founded Jewish community in Stuttgart moved into the apartment in Lange Stra e sometime in the 1830s. Before he was appointed district rabbi in 1834, he lived and worked as a house rabbi with the family of the commercial councillor and banker Nathan Wolf Kaulla at Poststraße 6 (today: Alte Poststraße).

Otto Hirsch was born in Stuttgart on January 9, 1885. He began his law studies at the University of Heidelberg in 1902. After his second state examination, he joined the Stuttgart city administration as a council assessor. His responsibilities included construction and water law as well as matters relating to the electricity industry. In 1919, he moved to the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior as a rapporteur for shipping issues, electricity supply and hydropower utilization and was very quickly promoted to Ministerialrat.