List of stumbling blocks in Esslingen am Neckar

The list of stumbling blocks in Esslingen am Neckar includes the stumbling blocks in Esslingen am Neckar that were laid as part of the artist Gunter Demnig's project .

In addition to the address of the respective stumbling block, the name of the Nazi victim and any picture, the list contains, in particular - if available - some biographical information .

address	Surname	Life	image
Abt-Fulrad-Strasse 3	Abraham Swiss	Abraham Schweizer (born February 3, 1875 in Schopfloch near Dinkelsbühl , † September 29, 1942 in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp or in the Treblinka extermination camp ) was the only rabbi in Horb to date . He completed his school days in Schwabach , at the Latin School in Esslingen and in Stuttgart and, after completing his studies and doctorate, worked as a rabbi in Weikersheim until 1913 , then until 1936 in Horb. Arrested during the Reichspogromnacht , he was first sent to the Dachau concentration camp , was released again and, in 1941, was evacuated to Oberdorf am Ipf . In 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt, on September 29 of the same year he was transported to an extermination camp and murdered there.	Stumbling block for Abraham Schweizer
Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, Breslauer Strasse	Sofija Belkina	Sofija Belkina was a forced laborer in the "Ziegelei" camp at the current location of the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium.	Stumbling block for Sofija Belkina
Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, Breslauer Strasse	Andrei Kovalov	Andrei Kowaliow was a Russian slave laborer who was held in the "Brickworks" camp.	Stumbling block for Andrei Kowaliow
Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, Breslauer Strasse	Johann Lubela	Johann Lubela was held as a forced laborer in the "Ziegelei" camp.	Stumbling block for Johann Lubela
Deffnerstrasse 5	Magdalene Maier-Leibnitz	Magdalene Maier-Leibnitz (* 1916 in Esslingen; † April 22, 1941 in Hadamar ) was born as the daughter of Hermann Maier-Leibnitz in Kaisheimer Pflegehof . Her brother was the later nuclear physicist Heinz Maier-Leibnitz , her uncle Reinhold Maier . She grew up at Deffnerstraße 5 , attended the Burgschule and from 1926 the later Georgii-Gymnasium until she left this school in 1932 due to illness. Afterwards she was taught at two reform pedagogical boarding schools, including the Salem boarding school, and went through several hospital stays. From 1938 she was housed in the Kennenburg Sanatorium . The diagnosis of schizophrenia was fateful for Magdalene Maier-Leibnitz: As early as 1939, the Stuttgart Ministry of the Interior requested that the patient be transferred, and on March 27, 1941 Magdalene Maier-Leibnitz arrived in Weinsberg . On April 22 of the same year, she was transported to the Hadamar Killing Center and gassed. It was alleged to the family that the young woman died on May 2, 1941 of a lung haemorrhage.	Deffnerstrasse 5 Stumbling block for Magdalene Maier-Leibnitz
Georgii-Gymnasium (Lohwasen 1)	Leopold Goldschmidt	Leopold Goldschmidt was a student at what is now Georgii-Gymnasium.
Georgii-Gymnasium (Lohwasen 1)	Marta Goldschmidt	Marta Goldschmidt was a student at what is now Georgii-Gymnasium. She was able to flee to Brazil with her parents .
Georgii-Gymnasium (Lohwasen 1)	Boris Ledermann	Boris Ledermann (* around 1924; † September 22, 1941 in Antwerp ). Boris Ledermann belonged to a family of Russian descent and last lived in Ottilienstraße (today: Richard-Hirschmann-Straße 17). He was confirmed in the Johanneskirche in 1938 and attended grammar school in Esslingen until 1939 before the family moved to Belgium . After the attack by the National Socialists on Russia, Boris Ledermann's father was supposed to be arrested. However, the Gestapo only found the son in the family home and deported him to the Breendonk concentration camp , where he was held for three months. However, the death certificate was issued in a military hospital in Antwerp.
Georgii-Gymnasium (Lohwasen 1)	Georg Liebel	Georg Liebel (* 1916 in Vienna ) was the son of Julie and Viktor Liebel. He moved to Esslingen with his family in his early childhood. He took part in Protestant religious instruction and was confirmed in the Johanneskirche. In 1936 he passed the Abitur at what would later be the Georgii Gymnasium and enrolled at the TH Stuttgart for the chemistry course. This was possible because he was considered the son of a combatant and was baptized as a Protestant. In 1938, however, he was forcibly de-registered because of his Jewish origins. In March 1939 he came to England on a student visa. He continued his studies in Leeds until he was deported as an enemy alien to Canada in May 1940 , where he spent two years as a prisoner of war. Georg Liebel stayed in Canada and started a family there with a woman who had also fled from Germany. Together with his sister Anne, he had a memorial stone set up for his parents at the Ebershaldenfriedhof .	The Georgii High School
Georgii-Gymnasium (Lohwasen 1)	Magdalene Maier-Leibnitz	so at Deffnerstrasse 5
Heugasse 31	Eugene Laible	Eugen Laible (born June 10, 1905 , † June 23, 1940 in Grafeneck ) was the youngest child of master cooper Wilhelm Laible and his wife Maria. He grew up in Heugasse 31. In 1921 he began an apprenticeship as a chemigrapher at Schreiber-Verlag . In 1924 he suffered a head injury in a bicycle accident that left him with permanent damage. That is why he lived in the Winnental Sanatorium from 1925 . On June 3, 1940, he was brought to Grafeneck, where he allegedly died of a stomach ulcer and peritonitis.	A drawing by Eugen Laibel
Hindenburgstrasse 48	Carlo Fairhair	Carlo Schönhaar († April 17, 1942 in Paris ) was the son of Eugen and Odette Schönhaar and was shot as a resistance fighter against the National Socialists in Paris.
Hindenburgstrasse 48	Eugene Fairhair	Eugen Schönhaar (born October 30, 1898 , † February 1, 1934 in Berlin ) was a son of Karl and Marie Schönhaar. He grew up in the Upper Beutau 6 , was already active as a youth in the socialist youth and completed an apprenticeship as an iron turner. Later he was a skilled worker at the Esslingen machine factory . In 1916 he was sentenced to three months in prison for participating in an illegal anti-war demonstration. In 1917 he was sent to the front, where he was wounded. After the KPD was founded in 1918 , he became active in this party. From 1920 he was a member of the Reich leadership of the KJD . He became editor of the Young Guard and had leading positions in the youth international, the international workers' aid and the central committee of the KPD in Berlin. His son Carlo , born in 1924 and executed in 1942, comes from his marriage to his wife Odette . From 1920 the family lived at Hindenburgstrasse 48. After the NSDAP came to power, Schönhaar organized anti-fascist pamphlets. He was arrested on November 11, 1933 and taken to Oranienburg concentration camp. On February 1, 1934, he is said to have been "shot while trying to escape" on the way to the Gestapo prison on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse.	Memorial stone in Berlin-Wannsee
Hindenburgstrasse 48	Odette Fairhair	Odette Schönhaar was the wife of Eugen Schönhaar and the mother of Carlo Schönhaar. She survived the Gestapo prison and the stay in the concentration camp.
Küferstrasse 4	Helene Gotthard	Helene Gotthard (born March 8, 1916 - † October 3, 1940 in Grafeneck ) was a daughter of Josef and Katharina Gotthard and grew up in Küferstraße 4. From the age of 14 she suffered from epilepsy , so after the death of her mother in 1938 she was placed in the Stetten Asylum. In September 1940 she was "transferred" to Grafeneck, where she probably died in the gas chamber .	Stumbling block for Helene Gotthard
Mörike high school	Anne Liebel	Anne Liebel (* 1920 ) was the daughter of Julie and Viktor Liebel. She took part in Protestant religious instruction and was confirmed in the Johanneskirche. Until 1936 she attended the girls' middle school (now: Mörike-Gymnasium), after which she was sent to England by her parents. There she worked in a factory in Leeds and caught up on her high school diploma at night school. She did community service in the British Army and returned to Esslingen in 1945 with the Civil Censorship Division of the US Army. In 1947 she returned to England, in 1948 she left for the USA. Together with her brother Georg she had a memorial stone set up for her parents in the Ebershalden cemetery.	Sculpture at the entrance to the Mörike-Gymnasium
Mörike high school	Ella Moses	Ella Moses was a student at today's Mörike-Gymnasium in Neckarstrasse.	Stumbling block for Ella Moses
Mülbergerstrasse 146	Lore Akulewitsch	Lore Akulewitsch (* 1921 ; † probably 1942 in Poland) was the daughter of an unmarried mother. She initially lived in foster families and from 1928 to 1937 in Wilhelmspflege, the Israelite orphanage. In 1942 she was deported from Frankfurt am Main . She died in occupied Poland.	Stumbling block for Lore Akulewitsch
Mülbergerstrasse 146	Doris Einstein	Doris Einstein (* 1928 ; † 1942 in Riga ) was brought up in the Israelite orphanage after the Jewish school in Öhringen was closed after the night of the pogrom. She was deported to Riga on December 1, 1941, where she died the following year.	Stumbling block for Doris Einstein
Mülbergerstrasse 146	Fritz Erlanger	Fritz Erlanger (* 1913 ; †?) Was arrested and deported in 1941. Nothing is known about his further fate. Fritz Erlanger had worked as a teacher in the Israelite orphanage.	The Theodor Rothschild House
Mülbergerstrasse 146	Thea Kaufmann	Thea Kaufmann (* 1923 ; † 1944 or 1945 in the Stutthof concentration camp ) was raised in the Israelite orphanage after she lost her father in 1933. She came from Berlichingen . She was deported from Stuttgart to Riga on December 1, 1941 and died in the Stutthof concentration camp.
Mülbergerstrasse 146	Margit Oppenheimer	Margit Oppenheimer (* 1921 or 1922 in Stuttgart ) was the daughter of the Jewish cattle dealer Moses Oppenheimer and his Christian wife. After her parents' divorce, she grew up with her siblings with her father, who was arrested in 1935 on the basis of the Nuremberg Race Laws, and was released again in the meantime, but died in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939. After the divorce, the children came to the Israelite orphanage in Esslingen. After leaving school, Margit Oppenheimer worked as a housemaid in Neuffen , but often returned to the orphanage during the holidays and on other occasions, where she also witnessed the devastation of the Reichspogromnacht . An emigration to Denmark, where her older sister had already moved, was no longer successful. Margit Oppenheimer therefore began an apprenticeship in a Jewish nursery in Hanover, and later she worked in a nursery in Feuerbach . Margit Oppenheimer was deported in May 1943. She came to Theresienstadt , where her brother was also imprisoned, and from there reported to a transport in order to be able to follow her fiancé, whom she had met in Theresienstadt. As a result, she ended up in the Auschwitz concentration camp , where she reported for a work transport to the Czechoslovak border. This is how she got to Náchod and survived the Third Reich. After the war, Margit Oppenheimer met her mother and brother again, but not her fiancé. She emigrated to Palestine in 1945 and later married a childhood friend from the orphanage.	Stumbling block for Margit Oppenheimer
Mülbergerstrasse 146	Rolf Moritz Rosenfeld	Rolf Moritz Rosenfeld (* 1929 , † 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was the son of a single, working mother who had placed him in the Wilhelmspflege. He was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942 and killed in Auschwitz in 1943.
Mülbergerstrasse 146	Theodor Rothschild	Theodor Rothschild (* around 1878 ; † 1944 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was the director of the Israelite orphanage in Esslingen and died after his deportation in Theresienstadt concentration camp.	Stumbling block for Theodor Rothschild
Mülbergerstrasse 146	Rosi Ruben, b. School	Rosi Ruben (born Schul, * 1915 ) was an educator in the Israelite orphanage. In 1933 she was expelled to Poland. From there she was able to flee to England and so survived the Holocaust .	Stumbling block for Rosi Ruben
Neckarstrasse 82	Goldschmidt family	The Goldschmidt family lived at Neckarstrasse 82.	Stumbling block for Walter Goldschmidt Stolperstein for Thekla Goldschmidt geb. Neumann Stumbling block for Leopold Goldschmidt Stumbling block for Marta Goldschmidt
Neckarstrasse 85	Berthold Oppenheimer	Berthold Oppenheimer (* around 1895 ; † probably March 26, 1942 in Riga ) was a son of the cattle dealer Moritz Oppenheimer (1867–1927) and his wife Rosalie, born. Löwenthal (* 1870) and grew up in Esslingen. He continued to run the family's livestock business after his father's death. In 1929 he married Martha Rotschild from Randegg . Their son Martin, born in 1930, emerged from the marriage. Berthold Oppenheimer was the last head of the Jewish community in Esslingen. In 1938 he was imprisoned for one month in the Dachau concentration camp and then had to do forced labor. In November 1941 he was picked up from his apartment with his wife and child and deported from Stuttgart to Riga, where he was murdered.	Stumbling block for Berthold Oppenheimer
Neckarstrasse 85	Martha Oppenheimer	Martha Oppenheimer (* around 1911 ; † probably March 26, 1942 in Riga ) was a daughter of the couple Jakob and Adele Rotschild from Randegg. In 1929 she married the cattle dealer Berthold Oppenheimer from Esslingen, with whom she had their son Martin. In November 1941 she was picked up from her apartment with her husband and child and deported from Stuttgart to Riga, where she was murdered.	Stumbling block for Martha Oppenheimer geb. Rothschild
Neckarstrasse 85	Martin Oppenheimer	Martin Oppenheimer (* 1930 ; † probably March 26, 1942 in Riga ) was the son of Martha and Berthold Oppenheimer. He grew up in Esslingen, first attended elementary school and then classes in the Jewish orphanage. In 1941 he was deported with his parents to Riga, where he was murdered.	Stumbling block for Martin Oppenheimer
Obertorstrasse 45	Ilse Loewenthal	Ilse Löwenthal (* March 5, 1909 ; † after March 26, 1942 ) was a daughter of Leopold and Jette Löwenthal. She worked as a secretary in the Israelite Orphanage and lived in her parents' house. She was deported on December 1, 1941, and then murdered; In a declaration of death, March 26, 1942 was given as the date of death.	Stumbling blocks in front of the house at Obertorstrasse 45
Obertorstrasse 45	Jette Loewenthal	Jette Löwenthal, b. Wertheimer (born August 22, 1873 ; † in the spring of 1943 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) married the inn owner Leopold Löwenthal in 1897, who founded a shop for chemical-technical products. After his death in 1932, she continued to run the business on Obertorstrasse until it was closed by the National Socialists in 1938. She was deported to Theresienstadt via the Tigerfeld concentration camp on August 22, 1942 , where she perished in 1943. The information about the date of her death is inconsistent.	An advertisement by Leopold Löwenthal in the Esslingen address book from 1904
Obertorstrasse 45	Rosalie Oppenheimer	Rosalie Oppenheimer, b. Löwenthal (* December 8, 1870 , † probably 1942 in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp ) was a daughter of Emma and Moritz Löwenthal. She married Moritz Oppenheimer. The son Berthold emerged from the marriage. After she was expropriated, Rosalie Oppenheimer lived in the Jewish old people's home in Stuttgart. In 1942 she was deported. After stints in the Tigerfeld concentration camp and in Theresienstadt, she perished in the Maly Trostinec extermination camp.	Moritz Oppenheimer's grave has been preserved, no inscription reminds of his wife.
Richard-Hirschmann-Strasse 17	Boris Ledermann	so at Georgii-Gymnasium
Rilkestrasse 15	Josef Staropolski	Josef Leon Staropolski (or Starapolski, born November 19, 1855 in Kalvarija , † September 18, 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp) was the prayer leader and slaughterer of the Israelite community in Esslingen from 1902 to 1933 . He was unmarried and lived first at Obertorstrasse 28 and later on the ground floor of Goethestrasse (today's Rilkestrasse) 15. On July 7, 1939, Staropolski, who was portrayed by the painter Dina Cymbalist , moved to Herrlingen , his first home, in the Jewish “old people's home” male resident he became with it and that was dissolved in 1942. The residents were resettled in Oberstotzingen Castle and later deported.
Sword mill	Nazar Lasarenko	Nazar Lasarenko was a slave laborer who was hanged by the Gestapo.
Silcherstrasse 11	Anne Liebel	so at Mörike-Gymnasium	Stumbling block for Anne Liebel
Silcherstrasse 11	Georg Liebel	so at Georgii-Gymnasium	Stumbling block for Georg Liebel
Silcherstrasse 11	Julie Liebel	Julie Liebel, b. Sussmann (* around 1889 ; † on or after September 6, 1942 in Poland ) married Viktor Liebel in 1913, with whom she had children Georg and Anne. The family lived in Esslingen first on Ottilienstraße (today: Richard-Hirschmann-Straße), from 1928 on Silcherstraße. At the beginning of 1939 Julie Liebel had to move to Stuttgart with her husband and son Georg. At first they were housed in Werastrasse, and from 1941 in the "Judenhaus", Urbanstrasse 116. The Liebels were deported to Poland in the spring of 1942. The last sign of life dates from September 6, 1942. A memorial stone with an English-language inscription on the Ebershaldenfriedhof commemorates Julie Liebel and her husband.	Stumbling block for Julie Liebel geb. Sweet man
Silcherstrasse 11	Viktor Liebel	Viktor Liebel (* 1885 in Nikolsburg in Moravia ; † on or after September 6, 1942 in Poland ) worked as a graduate engineer from 1912 at the Esslingen engineering works in the bridge construction department. He married Julie Sussmann in Vienna in 1913. The couple initially lived in Esslingen on Ottilienstraße (today: Richard-Hirschmann-Straße) and from 1928 on Silcherstraße. In 1938 Viktor Liebel was interned for four weeks as a “political prisoner” in the Dachau concentration camp . He then lost his job. Viktor Liebel had to move to Stuttgart with his wife and son in early 1939. At first they were housed in Werastrasse, and from 1941 in the "Judenhaus", Urbanstrasse 116. A civil engineering contractor gave Viktor Liebel some work. In the spring of 1942 he was deported to Poland with his wife. The last sign of life dates back to September 6, 1942. A memorial stone with an English-language inscription on the Ebershaldenfriedhof commemorates Viktor Liebel and his wife.	Stumbling block for Viktor Liebel
Strohstrasse 28	Elsbeth Süsskind	Elsbeth Süsskind was deported.

literature

• Thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Esslingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Ellinger, In honor of Rabbis Dr. Abraham Schweizer , in: www.neckar-chronik.de, October 21, 2010
2. ↑ Schweizer's biography at www.stolpersteine-stuttgart.de
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Max R., Marta and Leopold Goldschmidt , on: www.georgii-gymnasium.de
4. ↑ So the information on the homepage of the Georgii-Gymnasium. Here the Kaisheimer Pflegehof is only given as the birthplace of her sister Susanne, while Magdalene is said to be born in Deffnerstraße.
5. ^ Georgii High School
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Stumbling over a student's fate ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, pp. 8-11
8. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, p. 6
9. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, p. 7
10. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, p. 7 f.
11. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, p. 5 f.
12. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, pp. 8-11
13. ↑ ^{a b c d} Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2013 on www.alemannia-judaica.de
14. ↑ So the inscription on the stumbling block.
15. ↑ Signs of Remembrance ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
16. ↑ ^{a b} Active youth welfare
17. ↑ ^{a b c} Eberhard Kögel, Have you guys dilded? Memories of the Jewish cattle trade in Esslingen , Esslingen 2006, ISBN 3-933231-37-X , p. 37
18. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, pp. 3–5
19. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, p. 3
20. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, p. 3
21. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, p. 4 f.
22. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, p. 4 f.
23. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, p. 4 f.
24. ↑ Alemannia-Judaica (PDF file; 194 kB)
25. ↑ EZ article on Lasarenko
26. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, p. 10 f.
27. ↑ thinking sign e. V. Esslingen, Hermann Hägele (Red.): Esslinger Stolpersteine ​​2008. Denk -zeichen e. V. Esslingen, Esslingen 2008, p. 10 f.
28. ^ Bookstore The Contemporaries