List of stumbling blocks in Apolda
The list of stumbling blocks in Apolda contains all the stumbling blocks that were laid by Gunter Demnig in Apolda as part of the art project of the same name . They are intended to commemorate the victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in Apolda .
background
The Apolda Stolpersteine were initiated by the Prager-Haus Apolda eV association in May 2008. The project is supported by the city of Apolda.
By November 2019, 77 stumbling blocks had been laid in Apolda. The first three stones were set in the sidewalk opposite the Prague House at Bernhard-Prager-Gasse 8 for Jewish citizens on May 7, 2008. In accordance with Demnig's concept, Apolda commemorates all victims of fascism: those persecuted and murdered for political, religious and racist motives. Further relocations followed in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. The most recent relocation took place on November 27, 2019.
List of stumbling blocks
Some of the tables are sortable, the basic sorting is alphabetical according to the address.
Auenstrasse
image | Surname | Address coordinates |
Laying date | inscription | annotation |
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Maria Ischuprina | Auenstrasse 50 location |
6 Sep 2014 |
MARIA ISCHUPRINA RUSSIA JG. 1911 DEAD August 15, 1944 |
Maria Ischuprina, born on May 15, 1911 in Seschnikowa / Russia, was a forced laborer in the "Große Aue" camp and died on August 5, 1944 of pulmonary tuberculosis , a disease that was already curable at the time. Malnutrition and poor medical care robbed the body of defenses. The godmother of the stone is Marion Schneider, Auerstedt. | |
Forced labor camp | Auenstrasse 50 location |
6 Sep 2014 | 'BIG AUE' FORCED LABOR CAMP 1942-1945 HERE interned ABOUT 500 WOMEN AND MEN CHILDREN FROM EASTERN EUROPE / USSR |
On the VfB sports field in the "Große Aue" the NS authorities in Apolda set up a camp with six wooden barracks fenced with barbed wire in 1942, in which up to 500 men, women and children were housed. The adults had to work daily in the armaments factories, especially the largest one, Rheinmetall-Borsig AG , producing war material: grenade detonators, anti-aircraft ammunition and tracer ammunition. The stone's godfather is the Apolda branch of the DIE LINKE party . | |
Grigory Klopov | Auenstrasse 50 location |
Jun 19, 2015 | LAGER GROSSE AUE GRIGORI KLOPOW JG. 1940 DEAD December 3rd, 1943 |
The boy, born on May 10, 1940 in Verkhovye / Smolensk District, was taken on the forced labor transport to Apolda by his parents Xenija Klopowa and Ssemen Klopow and died of measles in the forced labor camp Große Aue. The body, weakened by hunger and lack of medical care, succumbed to this disease, which was also curable at the time. The godparents of the stone are Olga and Axel Vitzthum, Bad Sulza. | |
Xenia Klopova | Auenstrasse 50 location |
Jun 19, 2015 | CAMP BIG AUE XENIJA KLOPOWA RUSSIA FREED / SURVIVE |
The mother of Grigori, a forced laborer in the "Große Aue" camp, who was liberated in 1945. The stone's godparents are Olga and Axel Vitzthum, Bad Sulza. | |
Ssemen Klopov | Auenstrasse 50 location |
Jun 19, 2015 | CAMP BIG AUE SSEMEN KLOPOW RUSSIA FREED / SURVIVE |
Grigori's father, a slave laborer in the "Große Aue" camp, which was liberated in 1945. The stone's godparents are Olga and Axel Vitzthum, Bad Sulza. | |
Anna Streltschonok | Auenstrasse 50 location |
Nov 11, 2016 |
ANNA STRELTSCHONOK RUSSIA FREED / SURVIVE |
Anna was Jacob's mother, was a forced laborer in the "Große Aue" camp and was liberated in 1945. The stone's godfather is Thomas Thieme, Weimar. | |
Jacob Streltschonok | Auenstrasse 50 location |
Nov 11, 2016 |
JACOB STRELTSCHONOK RUSSIA JG. 1939 DEAD January 28, 1944 |
Jacob was the five-year-old son of mother Anna and father Ssemen, who was sent to another forced labor camp, both of which saw their liberation in 1945. Jacob died a year earlier of malnutrition and lack of medical treatment of miliary tuberculosis. The stone's godmother is Hannelore Jöck, Apolda. | |
Alexander cousin | Auenstrasse 50 location |
Nov 27, 2017 |
ALEXANDER cousin RUSSIA FREED / SURVIVE |
Alexander was the father of the boy Ivan Kusin, who was born on June 25, 1941 in Penewitschi / Hwastowitscheski and died of dysentery on December 18, 1943 in the forced labor camp Große Aue. Father Alexander and mother Alexandra were liberated in 1945. Godfather of the stone is Dr. Ernst-Michael Christoph, Apolda. | |
Alexandra Kusin | Auenstrasse 50 location |
Nov 27, 2017 |
ALEXANDRA cousin RUSSIA FREED / SURVIVE |
Alexandra was the mother of the boy Ivan Kusin, who was born on June 25, 1941 in Penewitschi / Hwastowitscheski and died of dysentery on December 18, 1943 in the forced labor camp Große Aue. Father Alexander and mother Alexandra were liberated in 1945. Godfather of the stone is Dr. Ernst-Michael Christoph, Apolda. | |
Ivan Kusin | Auenstrasse 50 location |
Nov 27, 2017 |
IWAN cousin RUSSIA JG. 1941 DEAD December 18, 1943 |
Ivan Kusin, who was born on June 25, 1941 in Penewitschi / Hwastowitscheski and died of dysentery on December 18, 1943 in the forced labor camp Große Aue, was the son of Alexander and Alexandra who were liberated in 1945. Godfather of the stone is Dr. Ernst-Michael Christoph, Apolda. | |
Ivan Bisjukin | Auenstrasse 50 location |
Nov 27, 2017 |
IWAN BISJUKIN RUSSIA JG. 1942 STARVED 25.11.1943 |
Ivan Bisjukin, who was born in Pinivichi on January 19, 1942 and died of malnutrition and marasmus in the forced labor camp Große Aue on November 25, 1943, was the son of Olga Bisjukina, who was liberated in 1945. Godmother is Christina Julich, Apolda. | |
Olga Bisjukina | Auenstrasse 50 location |
Nov 27, 2017 |
OLGA Madame Biziukhin RUSSIA FREED / SURVIVE |
Olga Bisjukina is the mother of Iwan Bisjakin, who was born on January 19, 1942 in Pinivichi and died of malnutrition and marasmus on November 25, 1943 in the forced labor camp in Große Aue . It was liberated in 1945. Godmother is Martina Natschke, Apolda |
Railway station, Bahnhofstrasse, Bergstrasse, Bernhard-Prager-Gasse, Bernhardstrasse
image | Surname | Address coordinates |
Laying date | inscription | annotation |
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Lukain Swenkowitsch | Bahnhofstrasse 69 | Aug 10, 2009 |
LUKAIN SWENKOWITSCH JG. 1902 deported FOR FORCED LABOR DEAD IN TRAIN found TOT 08/10/1944 |
Lukain, born in 1902, came from Cholopenitsch and was seriously injured and unloaded from the railroad car. The death certificate states: "Complete skull fracture with brain injury, crushing of both feet." He died in the hospital. His grave with the stone slab is in the Soviet cemetery of Apolda. The stumbling block for the Soviet forced laborer was laid at the station entrance by members of the Transnet youth union | |
Helena Vlasova | Bahnhofstrasse 69 | Aug 10, 2009 |
HELENA WLASOWA JG. 1891 deported FOR FORCED LABOR DEAD IN TRAIN found 02/03/1944 |
The 53-year-old married Elena was born in 1891 in the Russian Gagelowo district of Loknja. She was unloaded on March 2, 1944 at 3:00 p.m. from the railway car of the transport train Ru.3347 to Pirmasens as a dead person at the Apolda station. Her grave with the stone slab is in the Soviet cemetery of Apolda. The stumbling block for the Soviet forced laborer was laid at the station entrance by members of the Transnet youth union | |
Minna Salinger | Bahnhofstrasse 15 | Nov 11, 2016 | MINNA SALINGER JG LIVED HERE . 1868 IMPROVEDLY MOVED 1936 DRESDEN DEPORTED 1942 THERESIENSTADT MURDERED 9.12.1943 |
Minna Salinger b. Braun was the wife of the department store owner Eugen Salinger. After the "Aryanization" of her department store, she and her husband Eugen moved to Dresden, where he died in 1937. The stone's godmother is Marion Schneider, Auerstedt.
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Jakob Bukofzer | Bahnhofstrasse 53 location |
Jun 19, 2015 | JAKOB BUKOFZER JG LIVED HERE . 1886 "SCHUTZHAFT" 1938 BUCHENWALD DEPORTED 1942 BELZYCE MURDERED |
Jakob, born on March 4, 1886 in the Schönau district of Schwetz, was a Jewish businessman who moved to Berlin in 1919 with his first wife Martha Josefsohn from Dirschau and their son Gustav, where he received German citizenship. Her second child, Annemarie, was born in Berlin. In 1931 the family moved to Apolda, where his wife Martha died in the same year. In 1934 Jakob married the Jewish dressmaker Emma Scheuer from Vienna. In 1938 Jakob was admitted to the Buchenwald concentration camp and released after two months. He was no longer allowed to carry out his textile trade. On May 10, 1942, he and his wife Emma were deported to the Belzyce ghetto and murdered in the Majdanek concentration camp in October of the same year . Godmother of the stone is Pastor Dr. Susanne Böhm, Apolda. | |
Emma Bukofzer | Bahnhofstrasse 53 location |
Jun 19, 2015 | EMMA BUKOFZER JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED IN 1890, 1942 MURDERED BELZYCE |
Emma nee Scheuer was a Jewish dressmaker who married the widower Jakob Bukofzer in Apolda in 1934. She opened a "salon for modern ladies' tailoring", which she had to give up in 1938. She and her husband were deported to the Belzyce ghetto on May 10, 1942, and murdered in Majdanek in October of the same year. Godmother of the stone is Pastor Dr. Susanne Böhm, Apolda. | |
Erwin Raphael | Bahnhofstrasse 59 location |
Oct 6, 2008 | ERWIN RAPHAEL JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED 1892 1942 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 03/03/1943 |
Jewish merchant, married to a non-Jewish woman, who separated from her by mutual agreement in 1936 in order to achieve the protected status of “half-breeds” for their children Käte, Lieselotte and Wolfgang, who were also threatened with death as “ Jews of recognition ”. All three survived.
The godmother of the stone is Käte Raphael, Jena |
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Gertrud Raphael | Bahnhofstrasse 59 location |
Oct 6, 2008 | GERTRUD RAPHAEL JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED 1899 1942 MAJDANEK SOBIBOR MURDERED 1942 |
Unmarried daughter who works in her father Jakob's white goods shop. The godfather of this stone is Wolfgang Raphael in Sömmerda. | |
Jacob Raphael | Bahnhofstrasse 59 location |
Oct 6, 2008 | JAKOB RAPHAEL JG LIVED HERE . 1864 DEPORTED 1942 THERESIENSTADT DEAD January 17th, 1943 |
Jakob was the father of Gertrud and Erwin and ran a white goods shop on Karlsplatz (today: Alexander-Puschkin-Platz) 1. Martina Natschke from Apolda is the godmother of the stone. | |
Grete Rosenthal | Bergstrasse 1 location |
29 Aug 2018 | HERE LIVED GRETE ROSENTHAL JG. DEPORTED IN 1898, 1942 MURDERED BELZYCE |
Grete Rosenthal was the daughter of Minna and Jakob Rosenthal. She ran a ladies' cleaning business. The stone's godfather is Wolfgang Pirl, Apolda. | |
Minna Rosenthal | Bergstrasse 1 location |
29 Aug 2018 | MINNA ROSENTHAL BUILT LIVED HERE GRÜNBAUM JG. DEPORTED 1872 1943 THERESIENSTADT MURDERED June 1st, 1943 |
Minna Rosenthal was the wife of the late Jakob Rosenthal. She ran a cattle trade with her husband. Liane Reschke, Apolda, is the godmother of the stone. | |
Max Rosenthal | Bergstrasse 1 location |
29 Aug 2018 | MAX ROSENTHAL BUILT LIVED HERE. JG. DEPORTED 1910 1942 MAJDANEK MURDERED 1942 |
Max Rosenthal was the son of the late Jakob and the murdered Minna Rosenthal. He took part in his father's cattle trade. The stone's godfather is Max Reschke, Apolda. | |
Ilse Rosenthal | Bergstrasse 1 location |
29 Aug 2018 | ILSE ROSENTHAL BUILT LIVED HERE. BENJAMIN JG. DEPORTED 1913 1942 BELZYCE MURDERED 1942 |
Ilse Rosenthal was the wife of Max Rosenthal and the daughter-in-law of the late Jakob and the murdered Minna Rosenthal. She took part in her father-in-law's cattle trade. The stone's godfather is Doris Benter, Hamburg | |
Norbert Rosenthal | Bergstrasse 1 location |
29 Aug 2018 | HERE LIVED NORBERT ROSENTHAL JG. 1901 DEPORTED 1942 BELZYCE MURDERED 1942 |
Norbert Rosenthal was the son of the late Jakob and the murdered Minna Rosenthal. He took part in his father's cattle trade. The stone's godmother is Viola-Bianka Kießling, Apolda | |
Bernhard Prager |
Bernhard-Prager-Gasse 8 location |
May 8, 2008 | HERE LIVED BERNHARD PRAGUE JG. 1,888 deported in 1942 THERESIENSTADT TOT 09/26/1944 |
As the successor to his father Salomon, Bernhard Prager ran a fur and gut store in Sandgasse 8. Due to his social attitude, he is a symbol of the Jewish inhabitants of the city of Apolda, whose city council gave the street its name in 1959. On his 100th birthday, citizens of the Apolda district put a memorial plaque on the house at the suggestion of a “Jewish Life” working group of the GDR cultural association, supported by government agencies. Mayor Rüdiger Eisenbrand was the godfather of this first Stolperstein laid in Apolda. | |
Gertrud Prager, née Katzenstein |
Bernhard-Prager-Gasse 8 location |
May 7, 2008 | HERE LIVED GERTRUD PRAGUE GEB. KATZENSTEIN JG. DEPORTED 1894 1942 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 10/12/1944 |
Gertrud Katzenstein came from Erfurt, married the fur dealer Bernhard Prager and had a son Heinz with him. Markus Gessner from Apolda is the godfather of the stone. | |
Heinz Prager |
Bernhard-Prager-Gasse 8 location |
May 7, 2008 | HEINZ PRAGER JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED 1922 1942 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 1/15/1943 |
Heinz was used for forced labor in the Berlin armaments company Siemens and deported to Auschwitz as part of the " factory action ", where he was murdered by medic Josef Klehr with a phenol injection in the heart. Tina Unbelief from Apolda is the godmother of his stone. | |
Fanny Katzenstein, born Baum |
Bernhard-Prager-Gasse 8 location |
Oct 17, 2011 | HERE LIVED FANNY KATZENSTEIN GEB. BAUM JG. 1859 DEPORTED 1942 THERESIENSTADT DEAD 10.12.1942 |
Fanny was Gertrud's mother, who lived in Erfurt, was forcibly committed to the Apolda apartment in Prague in 1940 and a little later had to live in the former office building in Sandgasse with her relatives until they were deported. The stone's godmother is Kersten Steinke . | |
Benjamin Hofmann | Bernhardstrasse 14 location |
Jun 6, 2010 | BENJAMIN HOFMANN JG LIVED HERE . 1868 VICTIM OF THE POGROMS MALTAINED DEAD ON THE FOLLOWING 3/31/1939 |
Benjamin Hofmann was a cattle dealer who immigrated from Franconia to Apolda. During the November pogrom of 1938, his family's apartment was demolished by SA men and he was thrown behind the stairs. A few weeks later, he succumbed to the injuries he suffered. Godfather of the stone is the Ev. Church district Apolda-Buttstädt. | |
Lina Fleischmann, b. Brown sign | Bernhardstrasse 34 | Oct 6, 2008 | LINA FLEISCHMANN GEB. LIVED HERE BRAUNSCHILD JG. DEPORTED 1877 1942 MAJDANEK SOBIBOR MURDERED 1942 |
Lina was the wife of the Jewish cattle dealer Louis Fleischmann and came from Franconia to Apolda in Thuringia, where after the untimely death of her husband a son and a nephew continued the business. Raul Böhm from Auerstedt is the godfather of the stone. The stone is stored near the city due to road construction projects. Not reinstated on June 17, 2015. |
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Adelheid Friedmann, b. Brown sign | Bernhardstrasse 34 | Oct 6, 2008 | ADELHEID FRIEDMANN GEB. LIVED HERE BRAUNSCHIILD JG. DEPORTED 1881 1942 MAJDANEK SOBIBOR MURDERED 1942 |
Adelheid was Lina Fleischmann's sister, who lived in Jena. In 1941 she and her husband Max were forcibly committed to their sister's home in Apolda. The godfather of her stone is Klaus Dieter Böhm from Auerstedt. The stone is stored near the city due to road construction projects. Not reinstated on June 17, 2015. |
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Max Friedmann | Bernhardstrasse 34 | Oct 6, 2008 | MAX FRIEDMANN JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED 1876 1942 MAJDANEK SOBIBOR MURDERED 1942 |
Max is Adelheid's husband. The godmother of his stone is Marion Schneider from Auerstedt. The stone is stored near the city due to road construction projects. Not reinstated on June 17, 2015. |
Dr.-Rudi-Moser-Strasse, Franz-Mehring-Strasse, Goerdelerstrasse, Grünstrasse, Heidenberg
image | Surname | Address coordinates |
Laying date | inscription | annotation |
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Berthold Fleischmann | Dr.-Rudi-Moser-Straße 8 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | BERTHOLD FLEISCHMANN JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED IN 1878 1942 THERESIENSTADT LIBERATED / SURVIVED |
Berthold was a Jewish cattle dealer, married to Ida geb. Frank, who had a daughter Elfriede. While his wife Ida died in Theresienstadt, Berthold was evacuated by bus to Switzerland, interned there and, after a year internship, was able to return to Apolda in 1947, where he died soon afterwards. The godfather of his stone was his grandson Joachim-Peter Otto, whose widow Ilse continued the godparenthood after his death. | |
Ida Fleischmann, b. Frank | Dr.-Rudi-Moser-Straße 8 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | IDA FLEISCHMANN GEB. LIVED HERE FRANK JG. 1881 DEPORTED 1942 THERESIENSTADT DEAD 17.8.1943 |
Ida was the wife of the Jewish cattle dealer Berthold Fleischmann and had a daughter Elfriede with him. The stone's godfather is the CDU Weimarer Land. | |
Mendel Piper | Faulborn 32 |
Nov 27, 2019 | MENDEL PIPER JG LIVED HERE . 1894 'POLENAKTION' 1938 BENTSCHEN / ZBASZYN LODZ / LITZMANNSTADT MURDERED 11/24/1944 KAUFERING LABOR CAMP |
Mendel was born on March 7, 1894 in Bentschen / Zbaszyn and probably came to Apolda in the early 1920s, where he ran a one-man knitting factory with his wife Adele and daughter Helene. During the "Poland Action" in October 1938, he and his family were deported to Lodz / Litzmannstadt. From there he was taken to the Kaufering satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp in November 1944, where he died on November 24, 1944. Susanne Weischner in Apolda was the godmother of the Stolperstein. | |
Adele Piper | Faulborn 32 |
Nov 27, 2019 | HERE LIVED ADELE PIPER 'POLAND ACTION' 1938 Bentschen / Zbąszyń LODZ / LITZMANNSTADT FATE UNKNOWN |
Adele Piper, born French horn of unknown origin, probably came to Apolda with Mendel Piper at the beginning of the 1920s, where Mendel ran a one-man knitting workshop with his wife Adele and daughter Helene. During the "Poland Action" in October 1938, she and her family were deported to Lodz / Litzmannstadt. Stefanie Bela from Bad Sulza was the godmother of the Stolperstein. | |
Helene Piper | Faulborn 32 |
Nov 27, 2019 | HELENE PIPER JG LIVED HERE . 1923 'POLENAKTION' 1938 BENTSCHEN / ZBASZYN LODZ / LITZMANNSTADT MURDERED October 29, 1944 |
Helene was born on January 26, 1923 in Apolda and attended the Sophia School and then the grammar school. During the "Poland Action" in October 1938, she and her family were deported to Lodz / Litzmannstadt. There she died on October 29, 1944. Regina Katzschmann in Apolda was the godmother of the Stolperstein. | |
Clara Böckel | Franz-Mehring-Straße 4 location |
Jun 19, 2015 | CLARA BÖCKEL JG LIVED HERE . 1885 DISTRIBUTED SUPPLY HOUSE RUDOLSTADT "RELOCATED" September 28, 1940 PIRNA-SONNENSTEIN MURDERED September 28, 1940 ACTION T4 |
Clara was born on May 21, 1885 in Apolda, was an unmarried domestic worker who gave birth to her son Heinz in the Jena State Hospital. Because the boy was mentally disabled, he was housed in the Anna-Luisen-Stift Blankenburg. She herself suffered from schizophrenia and was admitted to the Blankenhain state hospital. When it was cleared in 1940, Clara was taken to the Sonnenstein euthanasia center, where she was asphyxiated in gas on September 28, 1940. The godmother of the stone is Pastor Dr. Susanne Böhm, Apolda. <Note: The term used on the brass board contains a typo. The historically correct name is VERSORGHAUS!> | |
Heinz Böckel | Franz-Mehring-Straße 4 location |
Jun 19, 2015 | HEINZ BÖCKEL JG LIVED HERE . ADMISSIONED IN 1923 1927 STADTRODA SANITARY INSTITUTE TRANSFERED TO ANNA-LUISEN-STIFT ORPHANAGE BLANKENBURG MURDERED May 28, 1939 |
Heinz, born on April 11, 1923 by Clara Böckel in the Jena State Hospital, was admitted to the Anna-Luisen-Stift Blankenburg as a mentally underdeveloped child. May 1939 at the age of 16 succumbed to his suffering. Godmother of the stone is Pastor Dr. Susanne Böhm, Apolda | |
Hermann Schiering | Franz-Mehring-Straße 7 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | HERMANN SCHIERING JG LIVED HERE . 1884 ARRESTED 12/30/1943 'sedition' PRISON BRANDENBURG-Gorden EXECUTED 10/16/1944 |
The Social Democrat took care of Soviet forced laborers and instructed them in the sabotage in the Apolda armaments factory Rheinmetall AG. The godmother for the stone is Dr. Martina Schuster from Apolda. | |
Erna Holzmann | Goerdelerstraße 8 location |
May 8, 2013 | ERNA HOLZMANN JG LIVED HERE . 1899 HUMILIATED / DISRUSTED ESCAPE TO DEATH 5.5.1942 |
Erna had survived the death of her parents and was divorced from her husband Albert Rosenthal. After the deportation order, she poisoned herself by inhaling carbon monoxide from her fireplace. The godfather of their stone is Steffen-Claudio Lemme (Member of the Bundestag / SPD), Erfurt. | |
Berta Strasser, b. Rochocz | Grünstraße 1 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | BERTA STRASSER GEB. LIVED HERE ROCHOCZ JG. 1882 HUMILATED / DISRIGHTS ESCAPE TO DEATH 9/8/1943 |
As a Jew, Berta blamed herself for the misfortune that the Nazis brought upon the whole family and took her own life with light gas. The stone's godparents are her relatives Birgit and Gerald Rosner. | |
Marie Hartmann | Heidenberg 89 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | HERE LIVED MARIE HARTMANN JG. 1901 ADMITTED 1928 LANDESHEILANSTALT BLANKENHAIN ' LAUNCHED ' 27.11.1940 PIRNA-SONNENSTEIN MURDERED 27.11.1940 'ACTION T4' |
Marie was born in Erlangen, but then grew up in Apolda because her father found a job as a knitter here. She attended school with success and after finishing school went to a textile factory as a seamstress. Because she got into trouble there, she looked for a new job at the Sophienkrankenhaus Weimar. She was brought home two days later because she spoke confusedly and was diagnosed with hebephrenia, a form of schizophrenia in adolescence. In the following years there was a constant martyrdom of treatment, because her life was constantly changing from home and the Jena mental hospital. The further fate of Marie: On September 20, 1940, she and other patients from Blankenhain were transferred to the Zschadrass state hospital in Saxony. For the patients, however, this was only an "interim storage facility" to take them to the Sonnenstein sanatorium if necessary, to kill them there with carbon monoxide. For Marie the time had come on November 27, 1940. She was brought to Sonnenstein with about 30 other fellow sufferers and killed that day. The godmother of the stone is Marion Schneider, Auerstedt. |
Heynestrasse, Jägerstrasse, Lauthsweg, Lessingstrasse
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Laying date | inscription | annotation |
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Anna March | Heynestraße 23 location |
May 8, 2013 | ANNA MARCH JG LIVED HERE . 1892 ADMISSIONED 1938 LANDESHEILANSTALT BLANKENHAIN 'LAUNCHED' 11/12/1940 PIRNA SONNENSTEIN MURDERED 11/12/1940 ACTION T4 |
Anna suffered from schizophrenia and was treated in Blankenhain. After the house had been vacated, she came via Zschadraß to the Sonnenstein killing center , where she was suffocated in gas. The family received a "consolation letter" stating that the cause of death was gallbladder and peritonitis. Godmother of the stone is Annemarie Vock, born in March from Apolda, one of her daughters. Four students from the Apolda grammar school researched the fate of Anna März with a project on the Abitur. | |
Salomon Ginsburg | Jägerstrasse 30 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | SALOMON GINSBURG JG LIVED HERE . 1891 DEPORTED MAY 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED MAY 1944 |
Salomon, a Jewish master tailor, was protected by his non-Jewish wife, but received an order for individual deportation for reasons that were not yet clear. The godmother of his stone is Katrin Zeiß from Apolda. | |
Ceslaw Andrzysiak | Jägerstrasse 9 location |
May 8, 2013 | BORN 03/02/1945 CESŁAW ANDRZYSIAK DEAD 08/04/1945 |
This Polish boy of a slave laborer died of malnutrition and illness. The godparents of the stone are the pupils of the then 4th grade of the elementary school “Am Schötener Grund” and their teacher in Apolda. | |
Ceslawa Andrzysiak | Jägerstrasse 9 location |
May 8, 2013 | HERE LIVED CZESŁAWA ANDRZYSIAK JG. 1923 forced laborer FREED / SURVIVE |
Czeslawa had to leave her dead son behind in Apolda when she was freed from her forced labor. The stone is sponsored by the Prager-Haus-Verein Apolda eV | |
Johann Ollik | Lauthsweg 1 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | JOHANN OLLIK JG LIVED HERE . 1905 ARRIVED 9/27/1944 POLICE PRISON ESCAPED DEAD FROM CONSEQUENCES 10/10/1945 |
The communist Ollik organized a strike, was charged with high treason and died as a result of a failed attempt to escape. The stone's godfather is Klaus Hoppe from Apolda. | |
Galina Shcholkina | Lessingstrasse 28 location |
Jun 3, 2010 | GALINA SCHTSCHOLKINA forced laborer RUSSIA SURVIVE |
Galina had to do forced labor at the Pfaff company and lost her four children to a typhus epidemic. Their graves are in the Soviet Cemetery of Honor in Apolda. The godfather of the stone is the Protestant church district Apolda-Buttstädt | |
Lia Shcholkina | Lessingstrasse 28 location |
Jun 3, 2010 | LIJA SCHTSCHOLKINA JG. 1937 DEAD 5.1.1944 |
Lija was one of four children who died of a measles epidemic and who lost their mother Galina within six weeks. Sigrun Heimbürge from Flurstedt is the godmother of the stone. | |
Tamara Shcholkina | Lessingstrasse 28 location |
Jun 3, 2010 | TAMARA SCHTSCHOLKINA JG. 1939 DEAD December 9, 1943 |
Tamara was one of four children who died of a measles epidemic and who lost their mother, Galina, within six weeks. The godmother of the stone is Beate Findeisen from Weimar-Oberweimar. | |
Yuri Shcholkin | Lessingstrasse 28 location |
Jun 3, 2010 | JURIJ SCHTSCHOLKIN JG. 1941 DEAD November 21, 1943 |
Jurij was one of four children who died of a measles epidemic and who lost their mother Galina within six weeks. Godmother of the stone is the local branch of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. | |
Vladimir Shcholkin | Lessingstrasse 28 location |
Jun 3, 2010 | WLADIMIR SCHTSCHOLKIN JG. 1936 DEAD December 6, 1943 |
Vladimir was one of four children who died of a measles epidemic and who lost their mother, Galina, within six weeks. The students of the “Lessing School” became godparents of the stone. | |
Koehler Rheinmetall-Borsig AG warehouse | Lessingstrasse 33 location |
Oct 17, 2011 | CAMP 'Kohler' Rheinmetall-Borsig AG 1943-1945 CHILDREN RUSSIAN forced laborers |
This theme stone is reminiscent of a forced labor camp in which numerous children had to die of hunger and disease. Pastor Ruth-Barbara Schlenker from Niedertrebra is the godmother of this stone. | |
Olga Ruzanovskaya | Lessingstrasse 33 location |
Oct 17, 2011 | OLGA RUSANOWSKAJA JG. 1941 DEAD 12/11/1943 UNDERNUTRITION AND AGITATION |
Olga and her sister Nina were among the six children their mother had to leave behind in the cemetery after their liberation. The godmother of the stone is the “Agrargenossenschaft Ilm-Saaleplatte eG” in Eckolstädt | |
Nina Rusanovskaya | Lessingstrasse 33 location |
Oct 17, 2011 | NINA RUSANOWSKAJA JG. 1937 DEAD 12/13/1943 UNDERNUTRITION AND AGITATION |
Nina is one of the two children of a Russian slave laborer who had to bury her in the cemetery before she was liberated. The stone's godfather is Max-Otto Strobel from Apolda. | |
Lyuba Alekhovicheva | Lessingstrasse 33 location |
Oct 17, 2011 | LJUBA ALYACHNOVICHEVA JG. 1941 DEAD December 18th, 1943 UNDERNUTRITION AND AGITATION |
Ljuba was one of six children in the slave labor camp. Godmother is a woman from Weimar who wants to remain anonymous. | |
Boris Andreyetsev | Lessingstrasse 33 location |
Oct 17, 2011 | BORIS ANDREJZEW JG. 1941 DEAD 7.1.1944 UNDERNUTRITION AND AGITATION |
Boris Andrejzew was one of the six children of forced labor who died from the inhumane living conditions. Hartwig Mähler from Niederroßla is the godfather of the stone. | |
Anatoly Trawkin | Lessingstrasse 33 location |
Oct 17, 2011 | ANATOLIJ TRAWKIN JG. 1940 DEAD 12/6/1943 UNDERNUTRITION AND MEANS |
Anatolij was one of the six Russian slave laborers who perished from the inhumane conditions in the Koehler camp. The stone's godfather is Karl Luft from Apolda. | |
Nina Lyunkova | Lessingstrasse 33 location |
Nov 1, 2011 | NINA LJUNKOWA JG. 1938 DEAD 7.1.1944 UNDERNUTRITION AND AGITATION |
Nina was one of the six children who died in the Koehler forced labor camp. The stone was sponsored by the children of the 4th grade of the elementary school "Am Schötener Grund" and their teacher | |
August Berger | Lessingstrasse 71 location |
Oct 6, 2008 | AUGUST BERGER JG LIVED HERE . 1882 ARRESTED 1944 SACHSENHAUSEN DEAD FEB. 1945 |
August Berger was one of the many victims of the " Operation Grid ", in which the Nazis had former functionaries of the workers' parties sent to concentration camps after the failed assassination attempt by Wehrmacht officers. The godfather of the stone is August Berger's son Karl Berger from Cottbus. |
Louis-Braille-Strasse, Niederroßlaer Strasse, Ritterstrasse, Stobraer Strasse
image | Surname | Address coordinates |
Laying date | inscription | annotation |
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Bella Rechtmann | Louis-Braille-Strasse 14 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | BELLA RECHTMANN GEB. LIVED HERE. SZAJNTHAL JG. 1890 DEPORTED 10/28/1938 LODZ AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 8/24/1944 |
Bella, Yiddish Brucha, Rechtmann was the wife of the textile manufacturer Julius, Yiddish Judka Rechtmann, who were deported to Poland with their relatives as stateless Jews. Godmother of this stone is the Ev. Youth Apolda-Buttstädt. | |
Regina Szajnthal | Louis-Braille-Strasse 14 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | REGINA SZAJNTHAL JG LIVED HERE . UNKNOWN DEPORTED 10/28/1938 ŁODZ AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 8/24/1944 |
Regina, Yiddish Ryfka Szajnthal was Bella's sister and shared the same fate with her. Godfather of the stone is Dr. Wolfgang Peller from Berlin. | |
Julius Rechtmann | Louis-Braille-Strasse 14 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | JULIUS RECHTMANN JG LIVED HERE . 1881 DEPORTED 10/28/1938 ŁODZ MURDERED 10/22/1942 |
Julius, Yiddish Judka Rechtmann, ran a small clothing factory with eight employees. Even before the Nazis came to power in the Reich, he had to accept anti-Semitic attacks. Pastor Herbert Stephan Meyer from Apolda is the godfather of the stone. | |
Gerd Funke | Niederroßlaer Straße 65 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | GERD FUNKE JG. UNKNOWN ARMED SERVICE REFUSED, GOT SHOT, APRIL 1945 |
Gerd Funke was one of six members of the Wehrmacht who were shot by an SS court martial for refusing to obey on the “Bismarck-Höhe” sports field (today “natural playground”). The three known by name, including Gerd Funke, are remembered there. The stone's godfather is the local SPD association Apolda. | |
Anton Müller | Niederroßlaer Straße 65 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | ANTON MÜLLER JG. UNKNOWN ARMED SERVICE REFUSED, GOT SHOT, APRIL 1945 |
Anton Müller was one of six members of the Wehrmacht who were shot by an SS court martial for refusing to obey on the “Bismarck-Höhe” sports field (today “natural playground”). The three known by name, including Anton Müller, are remembered there. The stone's godfather is the local SPD association Apolda. | |
Gerhard Volk | Niederroßlaer Straße 65 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | GERHARD VOLK JG. UNKNOWN ARMED SERVICE REFUSED, GOT SHOT, APRIL 1945 |
Gerhard Volk was one of six members of the Wehrmacht who were shot by an SS court martial for refusing to obey on the “Bismarck-Höhe” sports field (today “nature playground”). The three known by name, including Gerhard Volk, are remembered there. The stone's godfather is the local SPD association Apolda. | |
Paul Bamberg | Ritterstrasse 24 location |
6 Sep 2014 | PAUL BAMBERG JG LIVED HERE . 1890 ADMINISTRATED 15.5.1918 SANCTUARY BLANKENHAIN 'RELOCATED' 18.9.1940 PIRNA-SONNENSTEIN MURDERED 18.9.1940 ACTION T4 |
Paul Bamberg was a soldier in the First World War, bearer of the Iron Cross, traumatized by war events, was admitted to a sanatorium and when the same was evacuated, delivered to death by gassing in the killing facility. The stone is sponsored by members of the Bamberg, Apolda family. | |
Wilhelm Hartkopf | Ritterstrasse 28 location |
Nov 11, 2016 | HERE LIVED WILHELM HARTKOPF JG. 1904 ADMITTED 1921 LANDESHEILANSTALT BLANKENHAIN 'RELOCATED' 9/26/1940 PIRNA-SONNENSTEIN MURDERED 9/26/1940 'ACTION T4' |
Wilhelm Hartkopf got along badly at school, was aggressive and was classified as "weak-minded" and sent to the Apolda workhouse. On the recommendation of the district doctor, he was admitted to a sanatorium, where he worked as a gardener. He suffered from schizophrenia, but was able to live on Ritterstrasse for a short time from 1922 until he returned to the institution. When they were cleared, he was delivered to death by gassing in the killing center. The stone's godparents are Hanna and Wolf Middelmann, Göttingen. | |
Willi Brümmer | Stobraer Strasse 21 location |
Aug 18, 2009 | WILLI BRÜMMER JG LIVED HERE . 1893 ARRESTED 8/16/1936 'PREPARATION FOR HIGH TREASION' HANGED IN CELL FOUND 6/17/1936 |
Willi Brümmer was a communist and took part in the dissemination of educational pamphlets against the Nazi regime. The burden of another defendant made him feel in a hopeless situation and chose to commit suicide. The local group Apolda DIE LINKE is the godmother of the stone. | |
Gustav Born | Stobraer Strasse 47 location |
6 Sep 2014 | GUSTAV BORN JG LIVED HERE . 1896 ARRESTED 5/22/1940 'RASSENSCHANDE' PRISON UNTERMASSFELD GESTAPO PRISON WEIMAR MURDERED 7/9/1942 MAUTHAUSEN |
Gustav Born came from a Jewish merchant family in Jena, worked as a sales representative for various companies, was arrested in Apolda for prohibited contact with Aryan women, sentenced in 1940 to two years in prison and immediately after serving his sentence in 1942 transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he died two weeks later. Christina Julich from Apolda is the godmother of the stone. | |
Samuel Frank | Stobraer Straße 65/67 location |
May 8, 2013 | SAMUEL FRANK JG LIVED HERE . 1872 'INSTRUCTED' 01/07/1941 PIRNA SONNENSTEIN MURDERED 01/07/1941 ACTION T4 |
Samuel was the son of a Jewish cattle dealer from Bibra near Meiningen, who was accepted into the Apoldaer Carolinenheim in 1923 because of “nonsense”. In 1935 he left the home and was taken in by relatives in Walldorf. This couple was deported to Belzyce in 1942, but without Samuel, who at that time must have been in another institution. According to Yad Vashem, he was allegedly killed in the Pirna-Sonnenstein killing center, which cannot be proven there, so it should therefore be a forgery of the place of death that was common at the time. The research is still pending. The stone's godfather is André Schubart from Erfurt. | |
Leo Smoszewski | Stobraer Straße 65/67 location |
May 8, 2013 | LEO SMOSZEWSKI JG LIVED HERE . 1892 INSTRUCTED 1922 CAROLINE HOME DISMISSED 1937 BERLIN deported in 1942 GHETTO WARSAW TOT 04/05/1942 |
Leo was the son of a Jewish businessman and his wife from Berlin and was accepted into the Carolinenheim in 1922. By decision of an Apolda hereditary health court, he was sterilized in Jena in 1936 and in 1937 moved to the Berlin “permanent home for Jewish idiots”. In 1942 the 82 patients were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto. The Carolinenheim Apolda Foundation is the godmother of the stone. |
Weimar Street, West Street
image | Surname | Address coordinates |
Laying date | inscription | annotation |
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Heinz Peller | Weimar Straße 3 location |
Oct 6, 2008 | HEINZ PELLER JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED 1914 1942 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED December 19, 1943 |
Heinz was the youngest of three sons of the cigar dealer and woolen goods manufacturer Robert Peller and his non-Jewish wife Anna, born Maschke. He learned the trade and worked in his father's business until it was closed after the November pogrom in 1939. In the spring of 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo - possibly because of contact with an “Aryan” woman. On March 6, 1942, he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp as a police prisoner. When Buchenwald was to be made “Jew-free”, he was deported to Auschwitz in a transport of 405 Jews. After two months of forced labor in Auschwitz III-Monowitz, he fell seriously ill and was singled out to be killed. On December 19, 1942 (not 1943, as stated on the stone) he was killed by medic Josef Klehr with a phenol injection in the heart. Godmother of the stone is the regional church community in Apolda. | |
Max Peller | Weimar Straße 3 location |
Oct 6, 2008 | MAX PELLER JG LIVED HERE . 1907 DEPORTED IN 1943 AUSCHWITZ DEAD July 14, 1945 IN THERESIENSTADT |
Max was the middle of the three sons of the Peller couple (see above) and was sent to Theresienstadt via Buchenwald concentration camp, Auschwitz (where he played the violin in the Jewish orchestra), Mittelbau-Dora, Bergen-Belsen because of “racial disgrace” with an “Aryan” woman deported, where he died of typhus after the liberation. The stone's godfather is his son Dr. Wolfgang Peller. | |
Heinz Bertling | Weststrasse 20 location |
Jun 3, 2010 | HEINZ BERTLING JG LIVED HERE . 1912 ARRIVAL SERVICE REFUSED ARRESTED 1943 GOLFED 21.1.1944 |
Heinz Bertling, a technical engineer who was deployed as a Wehrmacht soldier in a railway pioneer company in the Ukraine, did not report back to his unit after a vacation from the Eastern Front. Instead he went into hiding in German-occupied France, but was arrested by the Gestapo on November 15, 1943 in a hotel in Rennes. A Wehrmacht field court sentenced him to death by shooting. Godmother of the stone is Dr. Erika Block from Apolda. |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Franz, Udo Wohlfeld: Jüdische Familien in Apolda , Weimar 2008
- ↑ Peter Franz, Tina Unglaube, Udo Wohlfeld: The Pragers. A Jewish family in Apolda . History workshop Weimar-Apolda eV, Apolda 2008, ISBN 3-935275-07-2
- ↑ Peter Franz, Udo Wohlfeld: The Fleischmanns. A Jewish family in Apolda , Apolda 2009, ISBN 3-935275-11-0
- ↑ Peter Franz, Udo Wohlfeld: Deadly Resistance. Apoldaer Arbeiter 1933–1945 , Apolda 2009, ISBN 3-935275-10-2
- ↑ Swantje Gebhardt, Svenja Maaß, Rebekka Reise, Lydia Steinke: mass murder of Blankenhain patients. Anna March - Victims of Euthanasia , Apolda 2014, ISBN 3-935275-31-5
- ↑ Peter Franz , Udo Wohlfeld: Caught in the net. The concentration camps in Thuringia 1933–1937 (= wanted 3). Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-935275-02-1
- ↑ Udo Wohlfeld: The life and death of the Schtscholkin family. A documentary narrative, Apolda 2010, ISBN 3-935275-15-3
- ^ Karl Berger, Peter Franz, Udo Wohlfeld: August Berger. Social Democrat in Apolda. History workshop Weimar-Apolda, Apolda 2008 (= series of publications of the Prager-Haus eV Apolda found 2 ), ISBN 3-935275-08-0
- ↑ Wolfgang Peller, Peter Franz, Udo Wohlfeld: The Pellers. A Jewish family in Apolda . History workshop Weimar-Apolda eV, Apolda 2008, ISBN 3-935275-10-2