List of stumbling blocks in Idstein

In the list of the stumbling blocks in Idstein those memorials are listed in the framework of the project pitfalls of the artist Gunter Demnig in Idstein were laid. So far, two stumbling blocks have been laid. The first on November 14, 2014, when seven stones were set and another on October 23, 2019, when four more stones followed.

Laying stumbling blocks

address	Surname	inscription	Laying date	image	annotation
Borngasse 18 ( location )	Julius Grünebaum	Julius Grünebaum, born in 1862, lived here Relocated involuntarily 1938 Frankfurt Humiliated / disenfranchised Escape to death December 8, 1940	November 14, 2014		Julius Grünebaum, born on January 25, 1862 in Espa , married on November 30, 1889 Paula Goldschmidt, born on August 12, 1864 in Oberlahnstein , she was the daughter of the former teacher and later trader Mayer (also Meier) Goldschmidt (died 1899) and his wife Karoline Goldschmidt, née Feist (born in Sprendlingen ; died in 1922 at the age of 83). At the end of 1889, Mayer Goldschmidt had acquired a textile and bedding shop in Idstein that had previously belonged to Louis Goldschmidt (died 1887) and founded the company Meier Goldschmidt & Cie. Subsequently, his son-in-law Julius Grünebaum was one of the shareholders. From then on, in Borngasse 9 (now 18), the Goldschmidt family, to which Paula's parents also belonged, her siblings Eugenie and Salli, and Grünebaums lived with their family, which grew to seven people by 1901. The first-born Hugo Grünebaum, born on August 27, 1890 in Idstein, was to marry three times. His first and third wife were victims of the Holocaust, just like himself. Hugo and his third wife were deported from Mainz on March 25, 1942 to the Piaski ghetto . The further fate of his daughter from his first marriage, Eleanor, who ended up in the Gurs camp in France with her mother in 1940 , is just as unclear as that of his son Horst. Sally Grünebaum, born April 23, 1892 in Idstein, the second son, died on July 14, 1917 as a sergeant at Geluwe in Flanders during the First World War . Recha Grünebaum, born on August 8, 1895 in Idstein, probably murdered in Treblinka in 1942 , married the handler Max Weiss (born on October 10, 1889 in Hechtsheim; murdered in Treblinka in 1942) and moved with him first to Mainz-Hechtsheim and later in downtown Mainz. Like their two daughters Ilse (1922 to 1942) and Lotte (1924 to 1943), they died in the extermination camps in the East.
	Hedwig Grünebaum	Hedwig Grünebaum, born in 1897, lived here Relocated involuntarily in 1938 Frankfurt Humiliated / disenfranchised Escape to death 7.5.1942	November 14, 2014		Hedwig Grünebaum, born on December 21, 1897 in Idstein, was the only one of the Grünebaum children who did not attend the local secondary school. There is also no evidence she has practiced, but she and her sister Herta opened a delicatessen store on July 1, 1926, which had to close again before 1929.
	Herta Grünebaum	Herta Grünebaum, born in 1901, lived here Relocated involuntarily 1938 Frankfurt Humiliated / disenfranchised Escape to death 9 May 1942	November 14, 2014		Herta Grünebaum, born on April 14, 1901 in Idstein, attended secondary school in Idstein from 1914 to 1916. It is not known whether and which school she attended afterwards, but that she was employed as an assistant, typist and clerk in the city administration from October 1919 to 1926. Their income contributed significantly to the livelihood of the four-person household, consisting of Julius Grünebaum, the sisters Herta and Hedwig and their penniless aunt Eugenie Goldschmidt. After Julius Grünebaum's house was looted and the household destroyed during the Night of the Reichspogrom from November 9th to 10th, 1938, the family turned their backs on their hometown Idstein. Like all Idstein Jews, they had spent the night of the pogrom in the Lahnstein house, which was also vandalized, and where they subsequently stayed was unknown. On December 1, they reported in Frankfurt am Main , Aystettstr. 6, the residence of her uncle Salli Goldschmidt. The doctor of economics and long-time member of the editorial board of the economic and later political editors (1902 to 1936) of the Frankfurter Zeitung had lost his wife Maria née Mayer in the same year. While the Idsteiner house was - involuntarily - sold, those now crowded together and living on limited resources tried to re-establish themselves under the existing reprisals in Frankfurt, keeping an eye on emigration. But when Hedwig and Herta used an afternoon for a walk, their father Julius Grünebaum committed suicide by hanging on December 8, 1940. In the meantime, Salli Goldschmidt continued to leave the country, but finally died before she started on November 13, 1941. Only the two sisters and their severely heartbroken aunt remained in the house. A deportation to Izbica or Majdanek was scheduled for May 8, 1942 in Frankfurt , for which more than 1,000 Jews had to gather in the wholesale market hall . The destination remained unknown to them, valuables of any kind had to be left behind, the transports were announced a few days in advance at this point. Herta and Hedwig Grünebaum, like their aunt Eugenie Goldschmidt, then took sleeping pills to kill themselves on May 7, 1942. Hedwig and Eugenie were found dead, Herta was alive. She was transferred to the Jewish hospital with severe poisoning and died there on May 9th. Their graves, like that of their father, have been preserved in Frankfurt. born on April 14, 1901 in Idstein.
	Eugenie Goldschmidt	Eugenie Goldschmidt, born in 1866, lived here . Relocated involuntarily . 1938 Frankfurt. Humiliated / disenfranchised. Escape to death 7.5.1942	November 14, 2014		Eugenie Goldschmidt, born on March 28, 1866 in Westerburg, was a sister of Paula and Salli Goldschmidt. She and her two nieces committed suicide on May 7, 1942 in Frankfurt am Main .
Rodergasse 6 ( location )	Julius Kahn	Here lived Julius Kahn Jg. 1901 Involuntarily warped 1938 Wiesbaden Deported 1942 Majdanek Murdered 08/25/1942	November 14, 2014		Julius Kahn, born on April 27, 1901 in Idstein, the son of Max Kahn and his wife Bertha (died on March 9, 1938), came from the oldest Jewish family in Idstein. His ancestor Mayer Hirtz, born in Camberg in 1656 , moved to Idstein in 1682, where he advanced as a trader and, with individual goods, also as a wholesaler at the count's and later princely court to court Jew , which was probably due to his useful contribution to goods and credit transactions. He died in 1715, but gradually lost his fortune from 1710 onwards, as the prince did not pay his outstanding debts. While Julius father Max Kahn (born 1875 in Idstein; died March 1, 1947 in New York City ) and three of his sons were able to emigrate to the United States , Palestine and Argentina , Julius Kahn and his family, as well as his sister Ida Gottschalk (1901–1942) and her husband Emil (1894–1942) victims of the Holocaust. After attending the local secondary school, Julius initially lived and worked as an assistant in Jakob Grünebaum's house in Limburger Strasse in Idstein, before returning to his parents' house in 1929. In 1932 he married Erna Kahn from Montabaur and had their daughter Bertel Lore with her the following year. As a result of the increasing discrimination and restrictions imposed on the Jews, Julius found it increasingly difficult to pursue his job as a cattle dealer. In addition, the first desecrations occurred, for example on the night of August 4th to 5th, 1936, when Kahn's inventory was also deliberately destroyed. During the Reich pogrom of November 10, 1938, the worst devastation at Kahns had to be documented: the entire furniture was badly damaged. The Kahn family, the grandfather Max and the son Julius with his family fled when the attacks began. On November 19, 1938, Max Kahn registered in Wiesbaden , and in 1941 he left for the United States via Spain . Julius, his wife and daughter also moved to Wiesbaden. The house in Idstein, on the other hand, came into new hands on November 21, 1938. Of the fixed 8,500  Reichsmark purchase price, minus an outstanding loan amount, 3,150 Reichsmarks remained, which should go to Julius Kahn after approval under foreign exchange law. In Wiesbaden father and son lived separately. In December 1938, Julius and his family moved into extremely limited rooms in a so-called Jewish house in Wiesbaden, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 80, where they were to stay until June 1942. On June 10, 1942, her journey of deportation began with the gathering on Luisenplatz , followed by a walk to the loading ramp at the Wiesbaden freight station and onward transport to Frankfurt am Main. The following day, 1,253 men, women and children had to board a freight train there that took them to the vicinity of Lublin . In the absence of tradition, the first destination that was reached on June 13th is not known. Julius, classified as fit for work, came from there to the Majdanek concentration camp, where he was murdered on August 25, 1942.
	Erna Kahn b. Boat	Erna Kahn nee lived here . Kahn born in 1908 Relocated involuntarily in 1938 Wiesbaden Deported in 1942 Murdered in Sobibor	November 14, 2014		Erna Kahn, born on December 19, 1908 in Montabaur, her deportation took her with around a thousand other women, children, old and no longer able to work after separating from her husband Julius to the Sobibor extermination camp , where they were probably immediately after their arrival in the Gas chambers found death.
	Bertel Lore Kahn	Here lived Bertel Lore Kahn Jg. 1933 Involuntarily warped 1938 Wiesbaden Deported 1942 Murdered in Sobibor	November 14, 2014		Bertel Lore Kahn, born on August 5, 1933 in Idstein, came to Sobibor with her mother, probably also murdered on arrival.
Schloßgasse 6 ( location )	Jonas Blum	Jonas Blum born in 1878 lived here . 1940 Jacoby'sche Anstalt Bendorf-Sayn deported 1942 Transit Ghetto Izbica murdered	23 October 2019
Wiesbadener Straße 6 ( location )	David Lowenstein	This is where David Löwenstein, born in 1878, lived . Flucht 1938 Holland dead April 26, 1942 Winterswijk	23 October 2019
	Bertha Löwenstein	Bertha Löwenstein nee lived here . Weinberg, born 1884, escaped in 1938 from Holland, dead 11/10/1940 Aalten	23 October 2019
	Ruth Lowenstein	Ruth Löwenstein, born in 1923, lived here . Escape 1938 Holland 1942 Sanatorium Het Apeldornsche Bosch deported 1943 Auschwitz murdered January 25 , 1943	23 October 2019

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Idstein  - Collection of pictures

• Project website by the artist Gunter Demnig

literature

• Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The Kahn and Grünebaum families in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , Idstein City Archives, Idstein 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Against forgetting, relocation of Idstein on November 14, 2014 ( memento of September 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on June 15, 2017.
2. ↑ Stumbling blocks: Students remember Jewish families. City of Idstein, accessed on December 26, 2019 . 
3. ^ Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , p. 12.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , p. 13.
5. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Grünebaum, Hugo. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
6. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Grünebaum, Hilda. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
7. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Grünebaum, Florenze. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
8. ^ Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , pp. 14–15.
9. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Weiss, Recha. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
10. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Weiss, Max. Gedenkbuch - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
11. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Weiss, Ilse. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
12. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Weiss, Lotte. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
13. ^ Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , p. 15.
14. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Grünebaum, Hedwig. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
15. ^ Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , p. 17.
16. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Grünebaum, Herta. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
17. ^ Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , pp. 15–20.
18. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Goldschmidt, Eugenie. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
19. ^ Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , p. 20.
20. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Kahn, Julius. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
21. ^ Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , p. 7
22. ^ Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , pp. 2–3
23. ^ Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , p. 4
24. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Gottschalk, Ida. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
25. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Gottschalk, Emil. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
26. ^ Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of Displacement and the Holocaust , pp. 9–11.
27. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Kahn, Erna. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 
28. ^ ^{A b} Gerhard Buck, Claudia Niemann: The families Kahn and Grünebaum in Idstein. Victims of displacement and the Holocaust , p. 11.
29. ^ The Federal Archives: Entry: Kahn, Bertel Lore. Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , accessed on July 19, 2017 . 

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