List of stumbling blocks in Brühl (Baden)

The list of the stumbling blocks in Brühl (Baden-Wuerttemberg) leads the artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in Brühl on. It contains information that reminds of the fate of people who were deported, expelled, murdered or driven to suicide under National Socialism.

list

image	address	Laying date	Surname	inscription	Life
	Hauptstrasse 8 (directly opposite the town hall). The house has not existed since 1975, there is now a parking lot. ( Map )	20th February 2014	Frieda Rhein	FRIEDA RHEIN GEB. LIVED HERE KAHN JG. 1880 IMPROVEDLY MOVED 1938 MANNHEIM DEPORTED 1940 GURS INTERNIERT DRANCY MURDERED 1942 AUSCHWITZ	Frieda Kahn was born on April 13th, 1880 in Esslingen am Neckar. In 1921 she married the businessman Jakob Rhein, whose first wife had three daughters with him. In 1938 the business in Brühl, which she and her stepdaughter continued to run, was destroyed, the furniture was thrown on the street and set on fire. The women then sold their property for less and moved to the supposedly safe city of Mannheim. Frieda Rhein was deported to Auschwitz via Gurs in southern France and murdered there.
			Lena Rhein	HERE LIVED LENA RHEIN JG. 1894 UNFOLILIENTLY MOVED 1938 MANNHEIM DEPORTED 1942 IZBICA FATE UNKNOWN	Lena Rhein was born on April 12th, 1894 as the third daughter of Jakob Rhein in Ketsch. She remained single all her life and helped with her father's household and business. He himself died naturally in 1934. After moving to Mannheim with her stepmother Frieda and her daughter Martha, she worked in a Jewish retirement home. She was deported to Izbica on August 19, 1942 . There their trail is lost.
			Martha Rhein	HERE LIVED MARTHA RHEIN JG. 1921 IMPROVEDLY WITHDRAWN 1938 MANNHEIM DEPORTED 1940 GURS INTERNIERT DRANCY MURDERED 1942 AUSCHWITZ	Martha Rhein was born on July 26th, 1921 as the daughter of Lena Rhein in Brühl. The father is unknown. Until 1935 she stayed in the house of her grandfather or her step-grandma. Then she worked in other households, probably also Jewish ones, but must have lived with her mother and grandma again in Mannheim. She was deported to Auschwitz via Gurs in southern France and murdered there.
	Rohrhofer Straße 32. The house was replaced by a new building in the 1990s. ( Map )	May 21, 2016	Hermann Brandt	HERMANN BRANDT JG LIVED HERE . 1879 WITNESS JEHOVAH ARRESTED 14.4.1939 'DISTRIBUTION OF FORBIDDEN PUBLICATIONS' PRISON MANNHEIM RELEASED 26.6.1939	Hermann Brandt, Otto Brandt's father, was born on February 17th, 1879 in Bismarckstreu and later lived with his family in the house at Rohrhofer Straße 32 in Brühl. On April 11, 1939, he was arrested by the gendarmerie and later convicted by the Mannheim Special Court for distributing forbidden writings by the "Jehovah's Witnesses". The prison lasted from April 14th, 1939 to June 26th, 1939.
			Otto Brandt	OTTO BRANDT JG LIVED HERE . 1914 JEHOVAH'S WITNESS ARRIVED 10/17/1943 THE WAR DENIED PRISON HANOVER MALTANDED / TORTURE DEAD 10/20/1943	Otto Brandt was born on February 8th, 1914 in Wygoda as the son of Hermann and Ida Brandt. In 1942, as a citizen of Brühl, he was imprisoned in Hanover for refusal to do military service, where he died on October 18, 1942 or October 20, 1942 at the age of 28. The sources on the cause of death are not entirely clear; he either died from abuse or from being hung by someone else's hand.
			Ida Hedwig Brandt	HERE LIVED IDA Hedwig BRANDT GEB. TIMM JG. 1892 WITNESS JEHOVAH ARRESTED 14.4.1939 'DISTRIBUTION OF FORBIDDEN PUBLICATIONS' PRISON MANNHEIM RELEASED 26.6.1939	Ida Hedwig Brandt b. Timm was born on May 16, 1892 in Wygoda. She was arrested along with her husband Hermann for the same reason and received the same prison sentence.

literature

• Brochure: Against Forgetting - The Jewish Rhein Family and the other Brühl Nazi victims , published in 2013 on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of November 9th, 1938, available in the Brühl town hall.

Web links

• Stumbling blocks for the head and heart in Brühl , accessed on March 24, 2014.

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