List of stumbling blocks in the Waldshut district

The list of stumbling blocks in the district of Waldshut includes all the special paving stones in sidewalks - so-called stumbling blocks - which are intended to commemorate the victims of the National Socialist dictatorship in the town of Waldshut-Tiengen and the surrounding area, in the Baden-Württemberg district of Waldshut .

Stumbling blocks

The Stolpersteine are a project by the artist Gunter Demnig . These small memorial plaques are intended to commemorate the fate of the people who were murdered, deported , expelled or driven to suicide during National Socialism .

Stumbling blocks are cubic concrete blocks with an edge length of ten centimeters, on the top of which there is an individually labeled brass plate . As a rule, they are set into the pavement at the same level in front of the last freely chosen houses of the Nazi victims . There are now over 70,000 stones (as of December 2018) not only in Germany, but also in 21 other European countries.

The first 14 stones in Waldshut and Tiengen were laid by Gunter Demnig on September 14th and 15th, 2012. On September 7, 2013, another 10 stones were added, which Demnig also laid. 5 stones were laid on October 19, 2013 by the building authority. Demnig personally used the next 10 again on August 22, 2016, one each in Unteralpfen , Nöggenschwiel and Dogern . The last stone so far was set on November 9, 2016 for Willy Aufrichtig in Waldshut by the building authority. So far, 40 stumbling blocks have been set into the ground in the Waldshut district.

Tiengen

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	HERE LIVED MORITZ MEIER JG. 1893 ESCAPE 1933 FRANCE INTERNS GURS ESCAPE 1942 SWITZERLAND SURVIVED	Hauptstrasse 2 Stolperstein	Sep 14 2012	Moritz Meier was born on August 19, 1893 in Nonnenweier , near Lahr. He learned the trade of cattle dealer and was drafted into military service in 1914. In 1919 he settled in Grießen as a farmer and cattle dealer. He was the only Jew in the village. He found a friendly welcome in Grießen. In 1923 Moritz Meier married Martha Abraham from Rust . Two children were born to the couple. In 1926 Moritz Meier moved with his wife and son to Tiengen, where the opportunity arose to buy an agricultural property west of the old town. The Meiers lived from the cattle trade and milk sales to the headquarters in Tiengen and to private parties. The number of livestock has increased considerably over time. Most recently they had 19 dairy cows in the barn. Up to two servants helped out and Meier also owned a car. They were also well integrated in Tiengen. That changed quickly after the National Socialists came to power. He was no longer allowed to sell his milk. After being arrested several times, Meier fled to Switzerland at the end of July 1933. His family followed in early August. In Zurich they found shelter for the time being with a sister of his wife. From here the road led to France. In the Loire Valley, near Saumur and Angers , they succeeded in acquiring the poorly run-down agricultural estate of St. Radegonde. Life was normal again until the beginning of World War II. Moritz Meier was then interned as an enemy foreigner and brought to Gurs in the autumn of 1940 . After a year he was able to leave the camp, but not to go to his family in St. Radegonde, because this region was occupied by the Germans. He found an escape route to Switzerland at great risk. On December 16, 1942, he crossed the border in the Jura and reached Switzerland, to freedom. In 1948 Moritz Meier emigrated to the USA. He died there in 1995.
	MARTHA MEIER GEB. LIVED HERE ABRAHAM JG. 1904 ESCAPE 1933 FRANCE GUT ST. RADEGONDE DEPORTED 1942 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 1942	Hauptstrasse 2 Stolperstein	Sep 14 2012	Martha Meier b. Abraham was born in Rust on January 30, 1904 . Together with her husband Moritz they had 2 children. Ernst was born on July 20, 1924 in Grießen and Ilse-Jeanette was born on January 22, 1927 in Tiengen. Together, the family was able to flee via Switzerland to Chênehutte-les-Tuffeaux in France, where they managed the St. Randgonde estate. Her husband was brought to Gurs in the fall of 1940. She could stay with her children. They were then picked up on the night of June 15-16, 1942 and taken to Auschwitz, where they were killed.
	JEANETTE ILSE MEIER JG LIVED HERE . 1927 ESCAPE 1933 FRANCE GUT ST. RADEGONDE DEPORTED 1942 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 1942	Hauptstrasse 2 Stolperstein	Sep 14 2012	Jeanette Ilse Meier was born on January 22nd, 1927 in Tiengen. She is the daughter of Moritz and Martha Meier. She was deported to Auschwitz with her brother and mother in June 1942 and murdered there.
	ERNST MEIER JG LIVED HERE . 1924 ESCAPE 1933 FRANCE GUT ST. RADEGONDE DEPORTED 1942 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 1942	Hauptstrasse 2 Stolperstein	Sep 14 2012	Ernst Meier was born on October 12, 1924 in Grießen . He was the eldest son of Moritz and Martha Meier. He too felt the changes after the Reichskristallnacht. As the only Jew in the third grade, he was not allowed to get up during the morning greeting ritual. On the day of the school trip, the teacher explained to him that Jews were not allowed on the trip. In addition, the teacher, a party member, Ernst chased after the class, who beat him up. A complaint from his father was thrown out by the principal and Meier then took his son out of school. Then the whole family moved to France via Zurich. From there, Ernst was brought to Auschwitz with his mother and sister, where he was murdered.
	JULIUS GUGGENHEIM JG LIVED HERE . 1879 ARRESTED 1938 DACHAU DEAD 1938	Hauptstrasse 48 Stolperstein	Sep 14 2012	Julius Guggenheim was born on October 26, 1879 in Tiengen. His parents were the businessman Samson Guggenheim and Bertha Guggenheim, b. Rothschild. In World War I he was a soldier and in the city he was an integrated community member. His shoe shop was doing well and you could buy from him on credit. Until 1929 he was a member of the men's choir. During the pogrom night in 1938 he was arrested with his wife and taken from Waldshut to Dachau where he was murdered on November 28, 1938.
	HERE LIVED TELLY GUGGENHEIM GEB. LICHTENBERGER JG. 1889 DEPORTED 1940 GURS MURDERED IN AUSCHWITZ	Hauptstrasse 48 Stolperstein	Sep 14 2012	Telly Guggenheim b. Lichtenberger was born on March 6, 1889 in Bretten and is the wife of Julius Guggenheim, whom she married after the First World War. They have two children, daughter Anna was born on March 30, 1921, and son Ernst a year later on June 5, 1922. Both left Tiengen in 1936 and 1937 respectively. In 1938 she and her husband were taken to prison in Waldshut. She was released the next day and allowed to go to Tiengen. 15 months later she had to sell her property and traveled to Freiburg. In 1940 she was deported from there to Gurs and in 1942 to Auschwitz, where she was killed immediately upon arrival. In the Erbprinzenstr. 1 in Freiburg im Breisgau is another stumbling block from Telly Guggenheim.
	IDA GUGGENHEIM JG LIVED HERE . 1881 DEPORTED 1940 GURS MURDERED IN AUSCHWITZ	Weihergasse 7 Stolperstein	Sep 14 2012	Ida Guggenheim was born on June 10, 1881 in Tiengen. Her parents were Sigmund Guggenheim and Jeanette Guggenheim geb. Because. She married Sigmund Guggenheim. Together they had a daughter and a son. The children emigrated to America at an early age. Her husband Sigmund died in 1929 and was buried in the Tiengen Jewish cemetery. Ida Guggenheim worked in the Villiger pillar factory . She was busy ripping out the tobacco. During the Reichskristallnacht, the SA people threw their furniture on the street. The widow was then arrested with the last women, 59 years old and nervous, and on October 22, 1940, the Gestapo shipped off to Gurs. From there she came to the Auschwitz extermination camp via the Drancy assembly camp, where she was murdered on August 10, 1942.
	HERE LIVED SOFIE SCHWARTZ GEB. GUGGENHEIM JG. DEPORTED IN 1878 1940 GURS PURCHASED FREE 1941 SOUTH AFRICA SURVIVED	Priestergasse 4 Stolperstein	Sep 14 2012	Sofie Schwartz born Guggenheim was born on February 3, 1878 in Tiengen. She and her mother ran a grocery store on Priestergasse. The residents called the "Herzeles" after their father's first name, Herz. She married Josef Schwartz and had two children with him. Gretel and Alfred. Her husband started a paint business with Sofie's brother. Four years after the marriage, her husband died at the age of only 28. She was one of the last 4 women who were brought to Gurs in southern France on October 22, 1940. Her son Alfred, who had meanwhile emigrated to South Africa, immediately set off for the Pyrenees and was able to buy his mother out. So she could spend her retirement in freedom.
	Is missing	Hauptstrasse 83 Stolperstein	Sep 14 2012	Hermann Albrecht was born in Tiengen in 1897. After World War I he worked in his father's shop as a plumber. He was not part of any persecuted minority in the NA: regime. From 1933 to 1937 he was even a member of the Sturmabteilung. The misfortune began with the love for Ella Höhl. She began a relationship with the mayor of Zurzach in Switzerland and cheated on him with a large sum of money. Albrecht wanted revenge and allied himself with the Zurzach building contractor Carl Mallaun. He was briefly imprisoned in 1935 for foreign exchange trading in Germany, but was able to flee to Switzerland. Mallaun was denounced by the Ammann and a lawyer from Zurzach. Both were staunch National Socialists and had an ally in Tiengen's Nazi mayor Wilhelm Gutmann . In 1939 Albrecht was arrested and questioned by the Gestapo. However, there was no reason for detention and the proceedings were dropped. However, he was not released, instead the Gestapo accused him of having made the German Reich contemptuous in Switzerland and of throwing bundles of money around him. He could prove that this story was wrong. Nevertheless, he was brought to Mauthausen concentration camp via Gurs. As a result of his hard work, he became an invalid and in 1941 he and 79 other inmates were gassed at the Hartheim killing center .
	HERE LIVED KURT GUGGENHEIM JG. 1921 ESCAPED 1938 USA SURVIVED	Hauptstrasse 41 Stolperstein	0Sep 7 2013	Kurt Guggenheim was born in Tiengen in 1921. He is the son of Fanny and Heinrich Guggenheim. Until 1933 he had a great childhood. The period of suffering began with anti-Semitism in 1933. His parents' business was affected by the boycott. His teacher in Tiengen taught in uniform and with a gun in his belt. He was denied access to the swimming pool. but a Jewish organization, Kurt Guggenheim began an apprenticeship as a waiter in Stuttgart . From there he was able to flee to America before the war began. He did 3 years of military service there and worked in the best hotels in Boston, Miami, New Jersey and New York. In 1970 he and his wife returned to Tiengen for a visit. In contact with the Tiengener Jungkolping in the 1990s, he emphasized that he would only return when the tombstones from the retaining wall on Seilerbergweg came back to their original location, the Jewish cemetery . On November 9, 1998, on the occasion of the return of the stones to the cemetery, he said the Kaddish , the Jewish prayer for the dead. Kurt Guggenheim died in March 2004.
	Is missing	Schwarzenbergstrasse 2 Stolperstein	0Sep 7 2013	Ellen Sternberg b. Levi was born in Freiburg on July 25, 1924 . She spent her childhood in Tiengen as the daughter of the cattle dealer Alfred Levi and his wife Lina née Bloch from Stühlingen . Until 1933 she had a carefree life. After that she was no longer allowed to visit her best friend, the daughter of the Protestant pastor. From 1935 onwards, Jews were no longer wanted in the Tiengen swimming pool and Ellen had to learn to swim in the Wutach . She was also excluded from the cinema and the theater. Then the family went to their grandmother in Breisach , with the goal of Dijon . After a hint from her grandparents that the situation in Tiengen had improved, things went backwards. She attended the Tiengen elementary school and the Waldshut grammar school. But she was the only Jewish girl who was treated like a leper. In 1937 things got worse. On the train ride from Waldshut to Tiengen, classmates threw their things off the train. Her mother then took her from school and brought her, together with her little brother, back to her grandparents in Breisach. In the same year, her father emigrated to Southern Rhodesia and in 1938 his family was able to bring him back. After initial difficulties, Rhodesia was at war with Germany, the family was able to settle in there.
	Is missing	Glockenbergstrasse 10 Stolperstein	0Sep 7 2013	Gustav Abraham was born in Rust / Baden in 1893. He is the brother of Martha Meier geb. Abraham. He was married to Erny Stein. Together they had the daughter Marion. Gustav Abraham owned a textile goods store in Freiburg. On April 1, 1931, they moved from Freiburg to Tiengen. They tried a fresh start with men's fabrics and dowry items. When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, they had lost their chance to be successful. They were forbidden to continue their business dealings with their previous clientele, whom they supplied with fabrics. On July 1, 1933, Gustav and Erny Abraham had to give up the business in Tiengen. In autumn 1934 they left Germany for France with their parents Albert and Lina Abraham, the married couple Moritz and Martha Meier and others and nine children in order to manage the St. Radegonde estate in France. From 1935 onwards, and increasingly in 1938, the estate accepted young Jewish people from Germany for training. But after the start of the war in September 1939. Gustav Abraham and Moritz Meier were interned and the property was confiscated and placed under compulsory administration. Those who remained were deported to Auschwitz in July and October 1942 and were probably immediately required there. Gustav Abraham was able to leave the Gurs camp with Moritz Meier. He was able to go into hiding in France until the liberation by the Allies in autumn 1944. He remarried on December 6, 1946. With his second wife Edith Abraham geb. Mendelson emigrated to the USA in October 1947 and his son Albert was born in 1948. Gustav Abraham died in 1991.
	Is missing	Glockenbergstrasse 10 Stolperstein	0Sep 7 2013	Erny Abraham b. Stein, was born on June 20, 1898 in Kitzingen . Together with her husband Gustav they had a daughter. After escaping from Tiengen to the Saint Radegonde estate in France in 1934, she was separated from her husband after the war began. She was able to stay on the estate for the time being, her husband was brought to Gurs. On July 15, 1942, her daughter was deported eastwards. Erny Abraham was then arrested by the Gestapo on October 9, 1942 and taken to Auschwitz, where she was presumably murdered by gas on arrival.
	Is missing	Glockenbergstrasse 10 Stolperstein	0Sep 7 2013	Marion Abraham was born on January 15, 1925 in Freiburg. She is the daughter of Erny and Gustav Abraham. In 1931, her family moved to Tiengen at Berghausstrasse 7. In 1933, the family and other people moved to Gut Saint Radegonde in France near Saumur . Marion grew up on this farm, which was initially run down. The construction was almost successful when the Gestapo and the French police belonging to it struck. 17-year-old Marion was first deported to Angers with others on the night of July 15-16, 1942 . On July 20, she and a total of 824 Jewish prisoners were brought directly and without any further interim camp to Auschwitz, where he arrived on July 23, 1942. 801 people were selected on arrival, 23 people, including Marion, were murdered immediately.
	Is missing	Tugoweg 5 stumbling block	Oct 19, 2013	Heimann Rabinowicz comes from Lithuania and was born on April 15, 1869 in Swiclocz. In 1910 he moved from Odenheim with his wife Thekla, born in Lengnau , Switzerland . Gideon and her son Herbert, born in 1909, to Tiengen. He gave religious education to the Jewish children. He was also something of an assistant rabbi. The district rabbi responsible for Tiengen was in Gailingen . He was also responsible for the slaughter, the so-called stratification. He lived in a stately house that he had built on Tugoweg. After 30 years of service for the Jewish community, the Reichskristallnacht was followed by humiliation. The 69-year-old bearded man with the kippah was exactly the hate object of the Nazis. He was taken to the Dachau camp, where he died of torture after two weeks. His son left Tiengen earlier for the Foreign Legion. His wife was able to leave Tiengen on March 30, 1939 and moved to live with relatives in Baden , Switzerland.
	Is missing	Priestergasse 13 Stolperstein	Oct 19, 2013	Amalie Bernheim b. Neuberger was born on May 25, 1872 in Mühlfeld in Lower Franconia. She came to Tiengen in 1903 and married Salomon Bernheim and lived with him in the former Jewish print shop at Priestergasse 13. Her husband died on May 7, 1930 at the age of almost 60. The widow Amalie Bernheim was one of the poorest of the Tiengen Jews. She was deported to Gurs on October 22, 1940 with the last three women. She managed to escape further deportation to Auschwitz. She survived the end of the war in free France and died on October 27, 1945 in Montélimar .
	SABINE BERNHEIM GEB. LIVED HERE WURMSER JG. DEPORTED 1880 1940 GÜRS MURDERED 1941	Hauptstrasse 55 Stolperstein	Oct 19, 2013	Sabine Bernheim was born on September 5, 1880 in Breisach. She was the second wife of Isak Bernheim, who ran a dowry shop at Hauptstrasse 55 in Tiengen. After her husband died in 1936, she continued to live alone in Tiengen. She was a popular fellow citizen and donated a lot to the needy. On the night of the pogrom in 1938, she was taken from her apartment and taken to prison in Waldshut. Since then she has lived a secluded life in fear. Since she had no relatives in Switzerland, she had to stay in Tiengen. On October 22, 1940, she and other Tiengen women were deported to Gurs. There she died three months later on January 26, 1941 at the age of only 60 years
	TILLY WURMSER JG LIVED HERE . 1,891 deported in 1940 Gurs MURDERED 1942 AUSCHWITZ	Hauptstrasse 55 Stolperstein	Oct 19, 2013	Tilly Wurmser was born on July 7, 1891 in Breisach. She experienced the Reichskristallnacht in Worms . On December 13, 1938, she moved to Tiengen to live with her sister Sabine, hoping to be safe from the Nazis there. She and her sister were brought to Gurs on October 22, 1940. On September 9, 1942, she came with convoy No. 30 to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where she was murdered.
	ERIKA FRANK GEB. LIVED HERE SCHLESINGER GEB. 1914 ESCAPE 1938 HOLLAND INTERNED WESTENBROEK DEPORTED 1942 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 1942	Zubergasse 2 Stolperstein	Oct 19, 2013	Erika Frank born Schlesinger was born on March 5, 1914 in Tiengen. After marrying Max Frank, the couple fled to Amsterdam and not to Palestine because they did not want to go to the desert. She was arrested in Amsterdam and dumped in Auschwitz. On September 30, 1942, she and her husband were murdered in Auschwitz.
	FERDINAND SCHLESINGER JG LIVED HERE . 1875 'PROTECTIVE' 1938 DACHAU ESCAPE 1939 PALESTINE	Zubergasse 2 Stolperstein	22 Aug 2016	Ferdinand Schlesinger was a well-known horse dealer in Tiengen. He was married to Jenny Levi and had 2 daughters. During the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, he was deported to Dachau. After a few months he was released again, promising to give away his house and to be silent about the time he had experienced. He and his wife were able to emigrate to Palestine on the last ship on November 27, 1939. He died there on April 1, 1950 at the age of 75.
	HERE LIVED JENNY Schlesinger GEB. LEVI JG. 1876 ESCAPE 1939 PALESTINE	Zubergasse 2 Stolperstein	22 Aug 2016	Jenny Schlesinger b. Levi was married to Ferdinand Schlesinger and had two daughters with him. Hedwig and Erika. Together with her husband, she was able to emigrate to Palestine on November 27, 1939. She was killed in the bombing of Haifa by the Italians on July 24, 1940.
	HEDWIG LEMMEL GEB. LIVED HERE. SCHLESINGER 1911 ESCAPED 1935 PALESTINE	Zubergasse 2 Stolperstein	22 Aug 2016	Hedwig Lemmel b. Schlesinger was born in Tiengen in 1911 and emigrated to Palestine in 1935 at the age of 24. After the war she visited Tiengen again and again.
	HEINRICH GUGGENHEIM JG LIVED HERE . 1880 'PROTECTIVE' 1938 ESCAPE 1939 ENGLAND	Hauptstrasse 41 Stolperstein	22 Aug 2016	Heinrich Guggenheim b. on July 5, 1880 in Tiengen, ran a paint shop in Tiengen. During the Reichskristallnacht his business was devastated and he came to Dachau for a short time. After four weeks he was able to go back. The sons, Hans and Kurt, had been able to leave Tiengen shortly before. Siegfried 1936. On August 10, 1939, they were able to leave for London. Later it went to the USA.
	HERE LIVED FANNY GUGGENHEIM GEB. HAUSER JG. 1881 ESCAPE 1939 ENGLAND	Hauptstrasse 41 Stolperstein	22 Aug 2016	Fanny Guggenheim b. Hauser was born in 1881 and grew up in Mühringen . She was the wife of Heinrich Guggenheim and mother of Kurt, Siegfried and Hans Guggenheim. During the Reichskristallnacht she was sent to Waldshut prison overnight, her husband to Dachau. After her husband returned after four, they had sold their property in Hauptstrasse and Priestergasse under pressure and fled to England on August 10, 1939. The couple later received an entry permit for the USA. In New York they saw their three sons again.
	JOSEF ARZNER JG LIVED HERE . 1897 IN THE RESISTANCE / KPD ESCAPE 1933 SWITZERLAND 1936 SPAIN INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE ARRESTED 1,938 interned at Gurs ESCAPE / WITH HELP SURVIVE	Klettgaustraße 16 Stolperstein	22 Aug 2016	Josef Arzner was born in 1897. In 1924 he was elected to the Tiengen City Council as a representative of the Communist Party. In his speeches he pointed out the danger of National Socialism. On the night the Nazis came to power, he fled Tiengen, first to Switzerland. In 1936 he fought in Spain on the side of the Republicans against Franco. In 1937 he was stripped of his German citizenship and declared stateless. He then lived in Paris where he was brought to the Gurs camp in 1938. But then he was able to escape and lived illegally in Plan-de-Baix , with the Berenger family. In 1945, after the end of the war, he returned to Tiengen and was re-elected to the city council for the KPD in 1952. Josef Arzner died in 1986.
	Is missing	Hauptstrasse 61 Stolperstein	22 Aug 2016	Fanny Guggenheim was born in Paris on October 5, 1889 . Her mother, Regina Rosenberg, was from Breisach and married Herrmann Guggenheim in Lörrach in 1890 . He adopted his wife's child that she brought into the marriage. Then the family moved to Tiengen. Her stepfather died in December 1930 and her mother in January 1933. After that, her life was not easy. The house she lived in was dilapidated and the rental income was low. In addition, her eyesight deteriorated. Alone and almost blind and dependent on help, she lived at Hauptstrasse 61. On April 21, 1940, she moved to a Jewish home for the blind in Berlin Stegliz . With more than 1000 people, she was brought near Riga on August 15, 1942 and driven into the Rumbula forest , where she and others were immediately shot.

Waldshut

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	KLARA SINCERELY LIVED HERE JG. 1878 DEPORTED 1940 GURS MURDERED IN AUSCHWITZ	Kaiserstraße 17 Stolperstein	Sep 15 2012	Klara Aufrichtig was born on October 8, 1878 in Klein Kosel / East Prussia. She ran a shoe shop with her sister Jenny in Waldshut. They were known for first class footwear. She led a withdrawn life. On October 22, 1940, she was transferred to the Gurs camp and then to Noé, Haute Garonne. Later to the east to Auschwitz. From then on she is considered missing.
	HERE LIVED JENNY SINCERE JG. DEPORTED 1876 1940 GURS RELEASED / SURVIVED	Kaiserstraße 17 Stolperstein	Sep 15 2012	Jenny Aufrichtig was born on June 23, 1876 in Klein Kosel / East Prussia, and was the sister of Siegfried Aufrichtig. In Waldshut, she and her younger sister ran a shoe shop at Kaiserstrasse 17. Together with her sister, she was brought to Gurs on October 22, 1940 . She survived the camp and died in France in 1949.
	Is missing	Schwarzwaldstraße 7 Stolperstein	Sep 15 2012	Josef Messmer was born on February 19, 1885 in Kirchen-Hausen . He had a job with the German Reichsbahn in Immendingen and was transferred to Waldshut in 1911. He took part in World War I from 1915 to 1918. In 1919 he came into contact with the Serious Bible Students in a French hospital with another wounded man . In 1922 he converted to this religious community, which from 1931 called itself the Jehovah's Witnesses . He took the lead in missionary service. The group numbered about 25 people in Waldshut, Tiengen, Oberlauchringen and Rheinheim. After the National Socialists came to power in January 1933, Jehovah's Witnesses were banned. The border area developed into a transshipment point for the watchtower from free Switzerland to Germany. Messmer was involved in this smuggling and had a good network. On October 7, 1934, he sent a telegram to Adolf Hitler in which he strongly criticized the treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses. The answer followed in April 1935 when the first in-house treatment took place. On February 16, 1937, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to eight months in prison. After serving his sentence, he was not released, but transferred directly to Buchenwald . Then he was in Dachau until January 1944 . From there he was brought to Lublin . On March 19th, the family received the news that Josef Messmer died of typhus on March 4th . Statements from fellow prisoners suggest that he was gassed in the neighboring Majdanek concentration camp .
	Is missing	Liederbach 2–8 stumbling block	Sep 15 2012	Anton Reinhardt was born on June 10, 1927 in Weiden near Dorhan . He attended elementary school in Waldshut. On the orders of the Nazi racial researchers, he was taken to hospital as a Sinto in 1944 for forced sterilization. He fled to Switzerland, but was expelled to Constance on the same day . Again he escaped by swimming across the Rhine near Koblenz. He was arrested and taken to Zurzach and handed over to the Germans. Back in Germany he came to the Rotenfels camp . Shortly before the end of the war, he managed to escape again. On Good Friday 1945 he was arrested by the Volkssturm near Bad Rippoldsau . On the orders of SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Haugner, he was sentenced to death by a court martial and personally shot by Haugner. He was 17 years old. In 1999 the film A single murder directed by Karl Fruchtmann was released . The film is about the murder of Anton Reinhardt.
	Is missing	Liederbach 2–8 stumbling block	Sep 15 2012	Gottlieb Reinhardt born in 1920 is a half-brother of Anton Reinhardt. It comes from his father's first marriage. His birth mother died while giving birth. After finishing primary school in Waldshut, he worked as an unskilled worker. Most recently in the dairy in Waldshut. The Gestapo arrested him on March 5, 1943 because of her racial ideology. On April 3 of the same year he was dumped in Auschwitz-Birkenau. In 1944 he was admitted to Majdanek near Lubin, where he was murdered on March 31st in the gas chamber.
	HERE LIVED SIEGFRIED sincerity GUGGENHEIM JG. 1873 'PROTECTIVE' 1938 DACHAU ESCAPE 1939 SWITZERLAND SURVIVED	Kaiserstraße 22 Stolperstein	0Sep 7 2013	Siegfried Aufrichtig was born on December 27, 1873 in Klein Kosel, Silesia. He ran a thriving men's clothing store at Kaiserstrasse 21. He was very much appreciated for his custom-made products, which he had made in Frankfurt. He was an active member of the fire brigade and the Red Cross. Since 1905 he was married to Josefine-Lucie Guggenheim from Tiengen. On 9/10 November 1938 he was deported to Dachau. His home was destroyed beforehand and he was badly injured. After giving up his property and pledging confidentiality, he was released three months later. On August 26, 1939 he fled to Basel with his wife .
	GERHARD SINCERELY LIVED HERE - JG. 1924 ESCAPED 1938 SWITZERLAND SURVIVED	Kaiserstraße 22 Stolperstein	0Sep 7 2013	Gerhard Aufrichtig was born on August 1st, 1924 in Waldshut. He is the son of Siegfried and Lucie Aufrichtig. Gerhard fled alone to Switzerland in 1938. The 14-year-old was taken in by relatives in Kreuzungen and St.Gallen. He was interned by the Swiss authorities in Waldschönengrund in the canton of St.Gallen. On February 29, 1940 he was able to move to his parents in Basel.
	HERE LIVED LUCIE TRULY BORN GUGGENHEIM JG. 1884 ESCAPE 1939 SWITZERLAND SURVIVED	Kaiserstraße 22 Stolperstein	0Sep 7 2013	Lucie Aufrichtig was born on November 2nd, 1884 in Tiengen. In 1905 she married Siegfried Aufrichtig. The marriage has two children. Ottilie Gertrud was born in 1907 and died of flu in 1922. Son Gerhard born in 1924 and died in 2006. She and her husband were able to flee to Basel in 1939.
	Is missing	Bismarckstrasse 13 Stolperstein	0Sep 7 2013	Arthur Siegbert was born on October 9, 1903 in Waldshut. His father Siegbert came from Pflaumloch and married Julie Bollag from Oberendingen in Aargau in 1899 . His older brother Karl drowned in the Neckar in 1925 and was buried in the Tiengen Jewish cemetery. Arthur was a member of the Waldshut bachelors and for a long time their secretary. When the climate became more and more toxic because of the National Socialists, he wanted to emigrate to the USA. The request was rejected. His second proposal was accepted. During this time, after being mistreated and humiliated, he was interned in Dachau. So he was released and was able to travel to New York. His elderly parents were able to leave the country on February 7, 1939, to a Jewish retirement home in Lengnau, Switzerland . Arthur Siegbert died in January 1985.
	Is missing	Bergstrasse 10 Stolperstein	0Sep 7 2013	Alfred Schäfer was born in Waldshut in 1895. In his youth he was an avid athlete. He was wounded in World War I. After his recovery, he was a crane operator at the Lonza Works. In 1920 he married Karoline Schlagenhauf. The couple had three children. In the early 1930s, through Josef Messmer, he came into contact with the Serious Bible Students and converted. Despite the ban, he made missionary visits to the villages around Waldshut. In February 1935 he was arrested for the first time, but after accepting his literature, he was let go. After Messmer's arrest in 1937, Schäfer was his successor. For example, he swam across the Rhine near Kadelburg and fetched literature that had been prepared in Switzerland and was packaged watertight to bring it to Germany. These actions went undetected. On October 28, 1941, Alfred Schäfer was arrested by the Gestapo in Dogern while working as a missionary. On March 20, 1942, he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp without trial. on December 1, 1942, he came to Sachsenhausen and on July 22, 1943 to Buchenwald. The worst time for him was Dachau. Experiments with malaria were also carried out with him. Thanks to his physical sturdiness, however, he survived this but suffered a permanent heart condition. He was then sent on to do forced labor. After the concentration camps were dissolved, the prisoners were sent on death marches . On the way to Theresienstadt, which was still occupied by the Germans, the group, which started in Leipzig at the beginning of 250, was liberated by the Russians on May 9, 1945. 120 survived, including Arthur Schäfer. First he recovered with his sister in Stuttgart before arriving in Waldshut in mid-1946. It took him another year to regenerate. After that he had a decisive role in building up the Jehovah's Witnesses in Waldshut. He died in October 1973 of a heart condition that he contracted in Dachau.
	HERE LIVED WILLY SINCERE JG. 1884 'SCHUTZHAFT' 1938 DACHAU 1939 DEPOSED EUSKIRCHEN 1942 BENDORF-SAYN DEPORTED 1942 MURDERED IN SOBIBOR	Kaiserstraße 22 Stolperstein	0Nov 9, 2016	Willy Aufrichtig was born on October 1st, 1884 in Klein Kosel. He was the brother of Siegfried Aufrichtig. He was slightly mentally handicapped and works as an errand boy for his brother in the clothing store. His handicap saved him from deportation to Dachau. He left Waldshut on October 10, 1939 and settled in Euskirchen . Switzerland did not want to include the 58-year-old social case. Willy Aufrichtig was murdered in Soribor in 1942 .

Nöggenschwiel

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	HERE WAS WORKING PASTOR JOSEPH KING JG. 1904 REPRESENTATION OF PITCH ABUSE IN PRISON WALDSHUT RELEASED April 23, 1945 DEAD May 13, 1945	Stolperstein Church	22 Aug 2016	Josef König , born June 28, 1904 in Hausach, was ordained a priest at the age of 22. In 1927 he became vicar in Lauf . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, his involvement in youth work with the NSDAP party leaders brought him more and more into conflict. After several transfers, King became parish administrator in Nöggenschwiel. On October 1, 1939, he was elected pastor there. He was also under observation at his sermons. His courageous and honest sermons as well as his opinions outside the church led to his arrest on November 23, 1944. He survived the winter in Waldshut prison without a trial, without heating and poor nutrition. After his release on April 23, 1945, he tried to resume his work as a pastor in Nöggenschwiel. However, on May 4th, he had a physical breakdown. Josef König died weakened on May 13, 1945 in Waldhut Hospital.

Unteralpfen

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	PRIOR MAX GRAF JG LIVED HERE . 1884 DENUNKED ARRESTED 1944 REPRESENTATION OF PITCH ABUSE WALDSHUT PRISON 1945 DACHAU MURDERED 25.4.1945	Stolperstein Church	22 Aug 2016	Max Graf was born on November 8, 1884 in Hambrücken . He became a priest on July 6, 1910. From 1921 to 1926 Max Graf worked as a chaplain in Kuppenheim and from 1926 to 1937 took over the parish of Wyhl am Kaiserstuhl . At the end of 1933 the first attacks by the Hitler Youth on members of the Catholic and Protestant youth took place. Those who professed to be part of the Church were mocked and ridiculed. Due to the almost hopeless struggle for the sentiments of the German youth, who had already weakened nerves, Max Graf began his ministry in 1937 in the small community of Unteralpfen near Waldshut. In religion class he tried to save what could still be saved. The sermon, which was decisive for his later arrest, was delivered by Pastor Max Graf on May 14, 1944, on Prayer Sunday, in which he spoke about the meaning and purpose of the supplication. This sermon provided the opportunity for people for whom Pastor Max Graf had long been a thorn in the side. 6 weeks after the fateful sermon, Pastor Max Graf received the request to meet with the Gestapo in Waldshut on July 3, 1944. On October 10, 1944, the Gestapo appeared in front of the rectory in Unteralpfen at around 10.30 p.m. and arrested Pastor Max Graf, and on February 7, 1945, he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp. Max Graf died of typhus on April 25, 1945, 4 days before the concentration camp was liberated.

Dogern

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	BORN IN DOGERN BENEDICTINE FATHER ATHANASIUS GERSTER JG. 1877 ARRESTED 1944 'ARMY FORCE' PRISON BERLIN PRISON BAYREUTH STARVED 15.3.1945	Stolperstein Church	22 Aug 2016	Father Athanasius Gerster was on August 4, 1877 August Gerster born in Dogern. In the Benedictine Abbey of Seckau he was given the name Athanasius Gerster. After the abbey was closed and the monks were expelled, he found shelter in the Neuburg Abbey near Heidelberg. After a fateful train journey in the summer of 1944 with a conversation with foreman, he was denounced by the Gestapo and arrested on July 24, 1944 and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in January 1945. Athanasius Gerster died on March 15, 1945, completely exhausted from malnutrition.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Moritz Meier
2. ↑ Martha Meier
3. ↑ Jeanette Ilse Meier
4. ↑ Ernst Meier
5. ^ Julius Guggenheim
6. ↑ Telly Guggenheim
7. ^ Ida Guggenheim
8. ^ Sophie Schwartz
9. ↑ Hermann Albrecht
10. ↑ Kurt Guggenheim
11. ↑ Ellen Sternberg
12. ↑ Gustav Abraham
13. ↑ Erny Abraham
14. ↑ Marion Abraham
15. ↑ Heimann Rabbinowicz
16. ↑ Amalie Bernheim
17. ^ Sabine Bernheim
18. ↑ Tilly Wurmser
19. ↑ Erika Frank
20. ^ Ferdinand Schlesinger
21. ↑ Jenny Schlesinger
22. ↑ Hedwig Lemmel
23. ^ Heinrich Guggenheim
24. ^ Fanny Guggenheim
25. ↑ Josef Arzner
26. ^ Fanny Guggenheim
27. ↑ Klara Sincerely
28. ↑ Jenny Sincerely
29. ↑ Josef Messmer
30. ^ Anton Reinhardt
31. ↑ Gottlieb Reinhardt
32. ^ Siegfried Aufrichtig
33. ↑ Gerhard Frank
34. ↑ Lucie Frankly
35. ↑ Arthur Siegbert
36. ↑ Alfred Schäfer
37. ↑ Willy Sincerely
38. ↑ Josef König
39. ↑ Max Graf
40. ↑ Athanasius Gerster