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4. Moses Cohn (?-1735), shopkeeper.
1711/13 destruction of the Great Synagogue by fire and Swedish attack.
1716 rebuilding of the synagogue on the old foundations. Settlement of Sephardi families in Altona.

5. Jacob Cohn (?-1771), shopkeeper and Klaus rabbi.
1750-56 "Altona amulet feud" between the two religious authorities Jacob Emden and Chief Rabbi Jonathan Eybesch?th nation-wide effect on Jewish identity.

6. Moses Cohn (?-1849), teacher.
1771 a Sephardi community and a "Portuguese Synagogue" in B䣫erstraߥ (today Hohenschulstraߥ).
1806 Jewish community school.
1812 separation of the Altona filial community in French Hamburg and the loss of the seat of chief rabbi to Hamburg for political reasons. Disbanding of the tri-community.
1840 the community school moves into their own building in Gr?aߥ (today the western side of Kirchenstrasse).

7. Jacob Cohn (1808-1905), Klaus rabbi.
1863 the Altona Jews acquire equal status with the other inhabitants through the "Emancipation Act for Jews".
1867 the Prussian town of Altona is represented in the Prussian House Of Representatives by the Jewish lawyer Moritz Warburg.
1873 new Jewish cemetery in Bahrenfeld.

8. Rachel Cohn (1847-1913), married to Leopold Levi (1847-1915), baker.
1887 sale of the "Portuguese Synagogue" and the dissolving of the Sephardi community.
1889 incorporation of Ottensen in Altona. The first immigration of "east European Jews" to Altona.

9. Moses Levi (1875-1938), lawyer and notary public, married to Betty, nee Lindenberger (1882-1942).
A second Jewish centre ("in Wohlers Allee") and two "polish synagogues".
1926 Dr Joseph Carlebach becomes chief rabbi of Altona. The community school moves to Palmaille (today the site of the Federal Fisheries Research Institute).
1927 "Greater Altona" formed through incorporation.
1933 onward, the legal, political and social exclusion of Jews by descriminatory laws, revocation of the means of employment, civil rights and property.
1937 Dr Theodor Weiss becomes chief rabbi. Dr Joseph Carlebach became chief rabbi of Hamburg in 1936. "Greater Altona" is merged into "Greater Hamburg" and the Altona Jewish community, now seriously diminished in numbers through emmigration and flight, is combined with the Hamburg community.

10. Elisabeth Levi, 1909- , 1943 escaped from Denmark to Sweden.
K䴨e Levi 1909- , 1939 emigrated to England.
Walter Levi 1911- , 1936 emigrated to England.
Herta Levi 1916- , 1939 emigrated to England.
28.10.1938 the deportation of Altona´s Polish Jews.
9./10.11.1938 the "Reichskristallnacht" pogrom. Thereafter the clearing up of the damage done to the synagogue, which was exempted from arson being situated in a densely built-up area, at state orders and at the expense of the Jewish community.
1941 the former community school building in Gr?aߥ is employed as a "Jews´ House" where Jews are compelled to reside. The first trains leave Hamburg deporting Jews to the extermination camps.
1942 the compulsory sale of the Great Synagogue to the city of Hamburg.
Betty Levi is deported from Altona to Auschwitz following the compulsory sale of her house at no. 23 Klopstockstrasse
25.07.1943 an air-raid destroys what was left of the buildings and institutions of the Altona Jewish community - together with the entire old town of Altona.