List of stumbling blocks in Groß-Umstadt

Synagogue from Groß-Umstadt, today in Hessenpark

Memorial with menorah in memory of the old Umstadt synagogue next to Darmstadt Castle

The list of the stumbling blocks in Gross-Umstadt contains stumbling blocks in the framework of the art project by Gunter Demnig in -Umstadt United were laid. They are intended to remember the fate of the Jewish fellow citizens who were murdered, deported , expelled or driven to suicide under National Socialism and who lived and worked in Groß-Umstadt.

background

With his action, Gunter Demnig commemorates the victims of the Nazi era by placing brass memorial plaques in the sidewalk in front of their last, self-chosen place of residence . Meanwhile, "are stumbling blocks " in more than 500 locations in Germany and in several countries in Europe .

"A person is only forgotten when his name is forgotten", quote Gunter Demnig.

With the stones in front of the houses, the memory of the people who once lived here comes to life. In Groß-Umstadt, the campaign was actively supported by the city and the Association of German Girl Scouts (BDP). The " Jewish Life in Groß-Umstadt " round table has existed since 2009 with the aim of fostering commemoration and awareness of the long, shared history more clearly than before.

Groß-Umstadt has a long tradition of Jewish life, Jews have been settled here since 1378, had a share of around 3% of the population in the 19th century and in today's Raibach district even almost 10 percent in 1813, had their own synagogue whose last building, after a dramatic and politically questionable demolition in April 1979 and relocation to the Hessenpark Neu-Anspach, was renovated and now exhibits a lot of information on Jewish life in Hessen .

In the city, a memorial in front of Darmstadt Castle reminds of the former synagogue and its desecration in 1938. The sandstone inserted on the left is a replica of the portal stone of the former Umstadt synagogue with Hebrew inscriptions . Translated from Genesis 28:17: How awesome is this place. Here is nothing but a house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. On the right side the memorial inscription: In honor of our Jewish fellow citizens and in memory of the synagogue, which was built in 1874 and desecrated on November 9, 1938 by racial madness.

On the stele on the side behind the memorial are the names of (almost) all of Umstadt's former Jewish citizens who fell victim to pogroms and Nuremberg race laws between 1933 and 1945.

In the Gruberhof Museum , the memory of the Jewish roommates is kept alive with a small exhibition and a model of the synagogue. The history of the citizens of Groß-Umstadt of the Jewish faith is described in detail in several books.

Laying dates

Stele (next to the memorial) with the names of former Jewish fellow citizens

• February 15, 2011 (Seven Stumbling Blocks)

Curtigasse 6 (a stone)

Untere Marktstrasse 10 (one stone)

Untere Marktstrasse 3 (one stone)

Obere Marktstrasse 7 (four stones)

• May 14, 2012 (Ten Stumbling Blocks)

Untere Marktstr. 10 (two stones)

Curtigasse 5 (a stone)

In rectory 10 (a stone)

Schulstrasse 19 (two stones)

Bachtorstrasse 32 (four stones)

• February 15, 2014 (Nine Stumbling Blocks)

Heinrich-Möser-Straße 12 (Rathausplatz) in the Klein-Umstadt district (a stone)

Obere Marktstrasse 4 to 6 (seven stones)

In the drive 5 (a stone)

Laying stumbling blocks

address	Surname	inscription	Laying date	image	annotation
Schulstrasse 19 ( Location )	Lichtenstein, Simon	Here lived Simon Lichtenstein Born in 1872 Victims of the 1938 pogrom Forced move 1941 Mainz retirement home Dead 1941	May 14, 2012		Simon and Emilie Lichtenstein lived at Schulstrasse 19.
	Lichtenstein, Emilie	Here lived Emilie Lichtenstein Born in 1901 Victims of the 1938 pogrom Forced move 1941 Darmstadt Retirement and infirmary home Darmstadt-Eberstadt Dead February 5, 1942
Curtigasse 5 ( Location )	Lichtenstein, Jenny	Here lived Jenny Lichtenstein Born in 1899 Deported in 1942 Piaski Murdered in Lublin	May 14, 2012
Untere Marktstrasse 3 ( Location )	Reichenberg, Berta b. Rap	Here lived Berta Reichenberg born Rap Born in 1888 Deported in 1941 Murdered in Kaunas	February 15, 2011		Bert (h) a Reichenberg (1988 in Umstadt - November 25, 1941 in Kaunas), had moved back to Umstadt as a so-called war widow from Windecken after the early death of her husband (died in 1918 from tuberculosis ) and lived with residency in Untere Marktstrasse 3. Your brothers Ludwig and Karl sold all their property in Groß-Umstadt before 1939 and moved to Frankfurt. She and her brother Gustav stayed in Umstadt. After the November pogrom of 1938, in which she was beaten out of her house half-naked, she fled to Frankfurt am Main to live with her brothers. Her brothers' families were deported to the Łódź ghetto and Buchenwald concentration camp until 1941 and murdered there. In the course of the third mass deportation from Frankfurt am Main, she was also deported to Kaunas in Lithuania on November 22, 1941 , and murdered there on November 25, 1941.
Obere Marktstrasse 7 ( Location )	Rothschild, Julius	Here lived Julius Rothschild Born in 1881 Deported Theresienstadt Murdered October 28, 1942	February 15, 2011		Julius Rothschild lived with his wife Rosa and their children Karola (born 1908), Adolf (born 1910) and Willi (born 1911) at Untere Marktstrasse 7 . He had a small shop at Untere Markstrasse 10 . His son Willi moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1936 . The trace of Willi was lost in 1943 in the Auschwitz extermination camp . K (C) arola married Antonie Fontain and temporarily lived in Amsterdam . She was also murdered in Auschwitz on August 21, 1942. Julius Frau Rosa was murdered on May 15, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp. Julius Rothschild himself was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp on October 28, 1942 . Only son Adolf Rothschild survived after fleeing to South Africa .
	Rothschild, pink	Here lived Rosa Rothschild Born Strauss Born in 1880 Deported Murdered in Auschwitz
	Rothschild, Willi	Here lived Willi Rothschild Born in 1911 Deported in 1943 Murdered in Auschwitz
	Fontein, Carola b. Rothschild	Here lived Carola Fontein Born Rothschild Born in 1908 Deported in 1942 Auschwitz Murdered August 21, 1942

literature

• Association for the preservation of the Groß-Umstadt synagogue (ed.): Groß-Umstadt. On the history of the Jews and their synagogue , Groß-Umstadt 1988, 181 pages
• Georg Brenner, Wilfried Köbler: You were Umstädter: History of the Jewish population in Umstadt, Raibach, Klein-Umstadt, Kleestadt and Semd, and the history of religious and racist anti-Semitism in Germany , series of the Umstädter Museums- und Geschichtsverein eV , Volume 3, Ed .: Magistrat der Stadt Groß-Umstadt, Groß-Umstadt 2010, 221 pages
• Ed .: Darmstadt-Dieburg district: L'chajim: the history of the Jews in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district , Darmstadt 1997

Web links

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

• stolpersteine.eu
• Website of the city of Groß-Umstadt: Jewish life with information on the locations
• Directory of Umstadt stumbling blocks. Association of German Girl Scouts Groß-Umstadt (PDF, 2.9 MB), accessed on March 8, 2020 . 
• Stumbling stone laying , website of the Association of German Girl Scouts Umstadt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. www.alemannia-judaica.de: The synagogue in Groß-Umstadt
2. ^ Stumbling stone laying , website of the Association of German Girl Scouts Umstadt; accessed on March 12, 2020

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