List of stumbling blocks in Ibbenbüren

The list of stumbling blocks in Ibbenbüren contains all stumbling blocks that were laid by Gunter Demnig in Ibbenbüren . They are intended to commemorate the victims of National Socialism who had their last known place of residence in Ibbenbüren before they were deported, murdered, expelled or driven to suicide.

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Grosse Strasse 55 Ibbenbüren	0October 6, 2016	HERE LIVED LOUIS LÖWENSTEIN JG. 1,868 deported in 1942 THERESIENSTADT 1942 TREBLINKA MURDERED		Louis Löwenstein was a traveling textile merchant. From 1936 he had hardly any customers and was systematically boycotted. In his distress he took out mortgages to support the family. In May 1938 his wife Johanna Löwenstein died. In the same year he was forced to sell his dilapidated house to the city. During the “Reichskristallnacht” on November 9, 1938, the mob went to his house across from the Agnischock butcher's shop. The windows were thrown in with paving stones, the family was chased into the street and their belongings were smashed. Full mason jars were thrown against the wall in the basement, and all goods from the storage room were thrown on the street. In 1939 Louis Löwenstein asked the mayor again to give him the money to sell the house. At the time he was homeless, without any household or furniture, and he was owed 4,000 marks. Daughter Henriette in Hameln took him in, he wished he would soon emigrate to Palestine. In 1939 he was forcibly taken to Cologne with his daughter Rosa, deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 and murdered in Treblinka. Rosa Löwenstein was also deported in 1942, she came to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and was murdered there. Nothing is known here about the fate of Mathilde Löwenstein and, in front, Bertha Weinberg after their departure from Ibbenbüren. Henriette Kamenetzky b. Löwenstein and her husband Salomon ran a shoe shop in Hamelin. Son Hermann, born in 1920, was able to leave for Palestine in 1934. Due to the boycott of Jewish merchants, the shop had to close in 1936. In 1938, deportation to Bentschen in Poland was ordered because Salomon was a Polish citizen. In 1939 Salomon, Henriette and their daughter Eva, born in 1928, came to the Wolomin ghetto. In 1942 they were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp and murdered there.
		HERE LIVED JOHANNA LÖWENSTEIN GEB. JACOBS JG. 1859 HUMILIATED / DISRUGGED DEAD May 26th, 1938
		HERE LIVED BERTHA VINEYARD GEB. LÖWENSTEIN JG. 1897 FATE UNKNOWN
		ROSA LÖWENSTEIN JG LIVED HERE . 1900 DEPORTED 1942 THERESIENSTADT MURDERED April 27, 1944
		HERE LIVED HENRIETTE Kamenetzky GEB. LÖWENSTEIN JG. 1895 'POLENAKTION' 1938 BENTSCHEN / ZBASZYN 1942 TREBLINKA MURDERED
		MATHILDE LÖWENSTEIN JG LIVED HERE . 1879 FATE UNKNOWN
Schulstrasse 2 Ibbenbüren		HERE LIVED MEYER ROSENTHAL JG. 1869 FORCED RELOCATION 1942 Hopsten 'JEWS HOUSE' deported in 1942 THERESIENSTADT 1942 TREBLINKA MURDERED		To the right of the synagogue was the home of the Rosenthal family: Meyer Rosenthal and his wife Rika Rosenthal lived there with their son Karl Rosenthal. From March to October 1936 Paul Abrahamsohn lived as a tenant in their house; in 1936 he managed to escape to South Africa. Meyer Rosenthal was a cattle dealer who mainly traded in goats. The boycott measures of 1935 severely restricted his professional activity. SA people put up a sign in front of the house: “A cattle Jew lives here. No German trades with him. Just rags. ”As direct neighbors, the Rosenthals kept the key of the synagogue in safekeeping, so they performed the sexton service. The 25-year-old Karl Rosenthal was admitted to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on November 14th with a broken arm and head injuries. “Protective custody” was the trivializing description in the context of the “Judenaktion”. While his parents rejected the idea of ​​fleeing for reasons of age, Karl Rosenthal prepared for his departure to Palestine after his release from the concentration camp. From July to November 1939 he took part in a training camp in Paderborn and then traveled via Vienna on a refugee ship towards the Black Sea. But the Second World War and the German Wehrmacht caught up with the refugees. The ships were refused any further voyage; A prison camp was set up in Šabac / Yugoslavia for the refugees. In retaliation for a partisan attack in which 21 German soldiers were killed, the Wehrmacht shot all 400 prisoners in the camp near the town of Zasavica on October 11, 1941. In the meantime, the number of Jewish citizens in Ibbenbüren had fallen from just under 90 before 1933 to three. Two of the remaining were Meyer and Rika Rosenthal, who had to sell their house and became completely impoverished in early 1942. They were forced to move into the "Judenhaus", a kind of village ghetto, in Hopsten, incidentally, together with the third person known as "Jewess", Klara Dieckmann, who belonged to the Catholic Church, but who was married to a Jew the Nazi persecution program came to fruition. Meyer and Rika Rosenthal were then deported to Theresienstadt in July 1942 and murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp in September of the same year. A tenant lived there with them from March to October 1936. Paul Abrahamsohn (born April 5, 1917). In 1936 he managed to escape to South Africa. Meyer Rosenthal mainly traded in goats. The boycott measures of 1935 severely restricted him in his professional practice. SA men put up a sign in front of his house: “A cattle Jew lives here. No German trades with him. Just rags. "
		HERE LIVED AMERICA ROSENTHAL GEB. PRAGUE JG. 1869 FORCED RELOCATION 1942 Hopsten 'JEWS HOUSE' deported in 1942 THERESIENSTADT 1942 TREBLINKA MURDERED
		KARL ROSENTHAL JG LIVED HERE . 1913 'SCHUTZHAFT' 1938 SACHSENHAUSEN ESCAPE 1939 YUGOSLAVIA 1941 SABAC MURDERED 10/12/1941 ZASAVICA
		PAUL ABRAHAMSOHN JG LIVED HERE . 1917 ESCAPE 1936 SOUTH AFRICA
Lower market 10 Ibbenbüren		SALLY GOLDSCHMIDT JG LIVED HERE . 1874 HUMILIATED / DISRUGGED DEAD March 1st, 1936		After attending the Protestant school, which was then located next to the Christ Church, Walter Goldschmidt learned the butcher's trade. Later he and his brother Josef Goldschmidt took over the butcher's business from their father. After the National Socialists forbade butchers of the Jewish faith to trade with farmers, Walter Goldschmidt sold the butcher's shop after the death of his father Sally Goldschmidt in 1936. The selling price was prescribed by the Nazis. Walter left Germany in 1936. He then fled to South Africa via Holland and Italy. His brother Josef died in Cologne in 1939. In the same year the mother, Rosalie Goldschmidt, was able to follow her son to South Africa. Johanna Rosenthal was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942. She found death there. All other relatives were also killed in concentration camps. In 1976 Walter, known as Kiki, received an invitation from his former ISV teammates to his hometown. He had played soccer with them for many years in his youth. In September 1981 he visited his hometown for the second time at the invitation of his old friend Willi Bendiek. Kiki died on October 5th, 1983 in Worcester / South Africa.
		HERE LIVED ROSALIE Goldschmidt GEB. MOSES JG. 1882 ESCAPE 1939 SOUTH AFRICA
		HERE LIVED JOHANNA ROSENTHAL GEB. MOSES JG. 1878 DEPORTED 1942 THERESIENSTADT MURDERED September 28, 1942
		JOSEF GOLDSCHMIDT JG LIVED HERE . 1908 UNFOLILIENTLY MOVED 1938 COLOGNE DEAD 22.6.1939 JEWISH HOSPITAL
		WALTER GOLDSCHMIDT JG LIVED HERE . 1910 ESCAPE 1936 SOUTH AFRICA
Lower market 2 Ibbenbüren		SALLY LÖWENSTEIN JG LIVED HERE . 1865 ESCAPE 1938 SOUTH AFRICA		The Löwenstein family ran a department store in the center of Ibbenbüren on the Lower Market for several generations. The parents Sally and Bertha Löwenstein had three children: Manfred, Julius and Lilly. Manfred married Emma Poppert, Julius and Eleonore Wilhelmine Lange got married and Lilly was married to Walter Poppert. During the Great Depression, her business also got into financial difficulties, and in 1928 Sally finally had to file for bankruptcy. After his parents went bankrupt, Manfred also opened a department store at Untere Markt 2. In 1935 the local NSDAP group organized a local boycott against all businesses that were run by Jews. As a result of the boycott, Manfred also had to give up his business. He finally leased the business premises to an SA man who, however, apparently did not pay him the rent and had to give up the business a year later. Manfred Löwenstein seized parts of the household effects of his debtor and insulted the SA man as a rascal and fraud, which attracted a lot of public attention. Manfred and his wife Emma Löwenstein fled to nearby Enschede a short time later. Manfred's further fate is unclear, only Emma is known to have been interned in Westerbork and later taken to an extermination camp. In 1938 his parents Sally and Bertha Löwenstein managed to flee to their daughter Lilly and her husband Walter Poppert in South Africa, who had already found refuge there in 1936. In 1939 Julius and Eleonore Löwenstein finally managed to escape to South Africa.
		HERE LIVED BERTHA LÖWENSTEIN GEB. ELSBERG JG. 1884 ESCAPE 1938 SOUTH AFRICA
		JULIUS LÖWENSTEIN JG LIVED HERE . 1901 ESCAPE 1939 SOUTH AFRICA
		ELEONORE W. LÖWENSTEIN GEB. LIVED HERE LONG JG. 1898 ESCAPE 1939 SOUTH AFRICA
		MANFRED LÖWENSTEIN JG LIVED HERE . 1902 ESCAPE 1938 HOLLAND FATE UNKNOWN
		HERE LIVED EMMA LÖWENSTEIN GEB. POPPERT JG. 1904 ESCAPE 1937 HOLLAND INTERNED WESTERBORK DEPORTED MURDERED IN OCCUPIED POLAND
		WALTER POPPERT JG LIVED HERE . 1902 ESCAPE 1936 SOUTH AFRICA
		HERE LIVED LILLY Poppert GEB. LÖWENSTEIN JG. 1904 ESCAPE 1936 SOUTH AFRICA
Alte Nordstrasse 5 Ibbenbüren	03rd November 2017	LEOPOLD ROSENTHAL JG LIVED HERE . 1871 HUMILIATED / DISRIGHTS DEAD 14.4.1937		The Rosenthal family lived at Alte Nordstrasse 5, near the Mauritius Church. The cattle dealer Leopold Rosenthal, born on May 2, 1871, died on April 14, 1937 at the age of 58. As early as 1935 he lost his livelihood as a result of the National Socialists' boycott of Jewish cattle traders and butchers. His wife Josephine, née Epstein, was born on October 8th, 1878 in Goch am Niederrhein. The family included the son Josef, born on January 26th, 1910 and the daughter Else, born on March 2nd, 1911. Else Rosenthal was the mother of a son on January 20th, 1933, who was born in Hamburg and was given the name Reinhard. Kurt Rosenthal was also one of the residents of the house, his date of birth dated August 1, 1904. Kurt Rosenthal died on December 8th, 1932 in Saerbeck. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Ibbenbüren. For some Jewish citizens from Ibbenbüren, Cologne and Hamburg were primary goals in an attempt to escape an increasingly threatening situation in their hometown. Here one found intact Jewish communities who offered their help. Josephine Rosenthal moved to Marktstrasse 94 in Hamburg on August 17, 1937, probably accompanied by her grandson Reinhard. Her daughter Else had already gone to Hamburg four weeks earlier. She had found a place to stay at 37 Wrangelstrasse. In 1941 the Rosenthals were deported to Litzmannstadt (Lodz) to the concentration camp, where they were murdered on May 3, 1942. Josef Rosenthal emigrated to Belgium via the Netherlands in 1937. There he was picked up and extradited to Germany. In November 1939 he was taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. There he was murdered on May 21, 1942.
		JOSEF ROSENTHAL JG LIVED HERE . 1910 ESCAPE 1937 BELGIUM DEPORTED 1939 SACHSENHAUSEN MURDERED May 21, 1942
		HERE LIVED JOSEPHINE ROSENTHAL GEB. EPSTEIN JG. 1878 UNFOLILIENTLY MOVED 1937 HAMBURG DEPORTED 1941 LODZ / LITZMANNSTADT MURDERED
		ELSE ROSENTHAL JG LIVED HERE . 1911 INVOLVEDLY MOVED 1937 HAMBURG DEPORTED 1941 LODZ / LITZMANNSTADT MURDERED
		HERE LIVED REINHARD ROSENTHAL JG. 1933 INVOLVEDLY MOVED 1937 HAMBURG DEPORTED 1941 LODZ / LITZMANNSTADT MURDERED
Bahnhofstrasse 21 Ibbenbüren		JULIUS KAUFMANN JG LIVED HERE . 1868 UNFOLILIENTLY MOVED 1938 COLOGNE DEPORTED 1942 THERESIENSTADT MURDERED July 12, 1942		Julius Kaufmann was born on August 14, 1868 in Ibbenbüren. His parents Moses and Pauline Kaufmann (died 1910) ran a textile business ("Manufakturwaren") at Bahnhofstrasse 21, which Julius took over from them at the latest after his father's death (1919). He was respected in the Ibbenbüren population and his business was very popular before the Nazis came to power. Julius Kaufmann sold his residential and commercial building to a neighbor on April 15, 1937, at least at a purchase price of two thirds of the actual value. Those who later sold or were forced to do so had to accept far higher losses. On June 2nd, 1937 Julius Kaufmann moved to Cologne. The address on the de-registration card for the city of Ibbenbüren is: Zülpicher Strasse 84. How long he lived there is not known, nor is it known what efforts he made to travel to the USA. In any case: anyone who forges such escape plans at the age of 69 must be very desperate! Julius Kaufmann's last address in Cologne is: St.-Apern-Straße 29/31. In front of this house, along with two others, there is a stumbling block for Samuel Kaufmann, born on July 31, 1868 in Sürth near Cologne, deported to Theresienstadt on June 15, 1942. On the same day, Julius Kaufmann was crammed into the transport to Theresienstadt. Samuel and Julius were probably cousins, both born in 1868, both died at the age of almost 74 years in Theresienstadt, Julius on July 12th, Samuel on September 1st, 1942. Theresienstadt: the ignorant and the ignorant thought of the film title "The Führer gives the Jews a city"!
Arenbergstrasse 1 Ibbenbüren		EWALD BERGER JG LIVED HERE . 1914 JEHOVAH'S WITNESS ARRESTED WAR SERVICE REFUSED DEATH JUDGMENT 1940 REICHSKRIEGSGERICHT BERLIN EXECUTED 15.6.1940 BERLIN-PLÖTZENSEE		Ewald Berger, born on August 16, 1914 in Ibbenbüren, was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. He was called up as a soldier for military service, but refused to obey Adolf Hitler. For this reason, Ewald Berger was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Reich Court Martial in Berlin on May 21, 1940. The sentence was carried out by beheading on June 15, 1940. In the files of the court there is a short note on the verdict: "Bible Students" and "Death penalty for decomposition of military strength". The population did not know that Ewald Berger had been executed. It was said that he committed suicide in search of his soul.
Grosse Strasse 69 Ibbenbüren	0November 9, 2018	HERE LIVED Johanette ROSENTHAL GEB. LOEB JG. 1879 UNVOLTANTLY DELIVERED 1938 COLOGNE FATE UNKNOWN		Johannette Rosenthal, née Loeb, born on September 5th, 1879 in Wressen / Styria (?), Was the widow of Calmon Rosenthal, who died in Ibbenbüren in 1926 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery. Like many other persecuted Jewish people, Johannette Rosenthal moved to Cologne on December 2nd, 1938, to Spichernstrasse 48. Her further fate is unknown to us. The merchant and cattle dealer Julius Ackermann was born on September 13, 1901 in Weyer / St. Goarshausen (Rhineland-Palatinate). Julius Ackermann was married to Helene Ackermann, née Rosenthal. Helene Ackermann was born on April 4th, 1903 in Ibbenbüren. Erwin Ackermann, born on January 15th, 1938 in Ibbenbüren, the son of Helene and Julius, also belonged to the family. After the Reichspogromnacht and the devastation of the Jewish houses of worship (November 9-10, 1938), Julius Ackermann was taken into so-called "protective custody" on November 12, 1938, but was released again after a short time. On April 5th, 1939 the Ackermann family, Julius and Helene were able to emigrate to the Philippines with their son Erwin. As a result, they were able to save their lives even before the beginning of World War II. In Manila, Erwin later ran a restaurant as an adult. In 1981 he emigrated to Spokane / USA. His parents later followed him to the United States, namely to New York. Elise Ackermann, the mother of Martha and Julius, who was born on July 7th, 1867 in Blessenbach / Oberlahnkreis, officially lived in Weyer-St. Goarshausen, but was staying with her family in Ibbenbüren at the time of her death. Elise Ackermann died in Ibbenbüren on May 8, 1938. The obituary was posted by the St. Elisabeth Hospital. Her grave is also in the Jewish cemetery in Ibbenbüren. Martha Rosenthal, née Ackermann, Julius' sister, was also born in Weyer on March 5, 1911. She did not survive the Holocaust. She moved from Ibbenbüren to Cologne on December 8th, 1938. She later fled to the Netherlands. She was imprisoned there on March 6, 1940 and taken to the Westerbork assembly camp. She was there until September 4, 1944, then in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and from October 23, 1944 in the Auschwitz extermination camp, where she was murdered. The cattle dealer Erich Rosenthal, born on July 23, 1904 in Ibbenbüren, also lived at Grosse Strasse 69. He was with Martha Rosenthal, nee. Ackermann married. Her son Karl (Calmon, Calman) was born on April 8, 1938. As the situation of the Jewish population became more and more threatening as a result of the brutal attacks by the Nazis (like Julius Ackermann, Erich Rosenthal was also taken into "protective custody" for about two weeks), the family sought, by moving to Cologne, to the relative anonymity of the big city, a solution. In November / December 1938 a place to stay was found on Lützowstrasse in Cologne. From there the escape route continued to Holland. As early as March 1940, he was arrested and transported to the Westerbork assembly camp. The stay lasted until September 1944. Then the Nazis Erich, Martha and Karl deported with the collective transport XXIV / 7 to Theresienstadt. In September / October 1944 the Rosenthals were taken to Auschwitz, where they were murdered. The date of Erich's death is documented: January 13, 1945, when Martha and Karl died cannot be determined. Walter, Werner and Irma Rosenthal were able to evade the Nazis' access by emigrating to the USA. Walter fled to Wesseling near Cologne on August 8, 1934. From there he managed to enter the USA. In 1949 he was registered in Flora, Kansas. Walter died on January 21, 1965. Werner Rosenthal emigrated on January 31, 1936. Like Walter, he lived in Flora. We do not know his further fate. Irma Rosenthal was able to emigrate to the USA on October 11, 1937. Via New York she went to Flora, Kansas. There she married Walter Weinberg. Her further life is not known.
		HERE LIVED IRMA ROSENTHAL VERH. VINEYARD JG. 1914 ESCAPE 1937
		WERNER ROSENTHAL JG LIVED HERE . 1909 ESCAPE 1936 USA
		WALTER ROSENTHAL JG LIVED HERE . 1906 ESCAPE 1936 USA
		HERE LIVED ERICH ROSENTHAL JG. 1904 INVOLVEDLY MOVED 1938 COLOGNE ESCAPE HOLLAND INTERNED WESTERBORK DEPORTED 1944 THERESIENSTADT 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 13.1.1945
		HERE LIVED MARTHA ROSENTHAL GEB. ACKERMANN JG. 1911 IMPROVEDLY MOVED 1938 COLOGNE ESCAPE HOLLAND DEPORTED 1944 THERESIENSTADT 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED
		KARL C ROSENTHAL JG LIVED HERE . 1938 involuntarily moved in 1938 COLOGNE FLIGHT HOLLAND interned WESTERBORK deported in 1944 THERESIENSTADT 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED
		ERWIN ACKERMANN JG LIVED HERE . 1939 ESCAPE 1939 PHILIPPINES
		JULIUS ACKERMANN JG LIVED HERE . 1901 'PROTECTIVE' 1938 ESCAPED 1939 PHILIPPINES
		HELENE ACKERMANN GEB. LIVED HERE ROSENTHAL JG. 1903 ESCAPE 1939 PHILIPPINES
		HERE LIVED ELISE ACKERMANN GEB. HALBERSTADT JG. 1867 HUMILIATED / DISRIGHTS DEAD 8th May 1938

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ibbenbüren - Steering Committee - Project Stumbling Blocks - Action against forgetting the atrocities under National Socialism. Ibbenbüren City Museum, accessed on December 29, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Memorial book - search in the directory of names. The Federal Archives, accessed on June 30, 2017 .