List of stumbling blocks in Kleinlangheim

The list of stumbling blocks in Kleinlangheim contains the stumbling blocks that were laid by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig in Kleinlangheim , a market in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen . Stumbling blocks remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists . As a rule, they are in front of the victim's last self-chosen place of residence.

Jewish life in Kleinlangheim

Some Jewish families are said to have lived in Kleinlangheim as early as the beginning of the 15th century. The joint Jewish community of Kleinlangheim and Großlangheim came into being in the 18th century. The register lists from 1825 showed 17 heads of families for Kleinlangheim, most of them were cattle dealers, agricultural products and goods dealers. The community had a prayer house (from 1725), then a synagogue (built in 1832 at Pfarrgasse 21), a one-class school and a mikveh. The synagogue was devastated on the night of the November pogroms in 1938 .

A plaque on the town hall reminds of the devastation of the synagogue.

List of stumbling blocks

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	ARNOLD LEVIN JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED 1889 1943 GURS MURDERED IN AUSCHWITZ in 1943	Wiesenbronner Strasse 5	Arnold Levin , also spelled Lewin, was born on December 3, 1889 in Rheindürkheim . His parents were Markus (also Marcus) Lewin and Josefine (also Josephine), née Meyer. He was a wine merchant and married to Irma , née Sondhelm. The couple had at least two children, including their son Jacob Lewin (born 1925). In 1932 he was the second chairman of the Jewish community in Kleinlangheim. Arnold was imprisoned several times, from November 24, 1938 to December 1, 1938 in Dachau concentration camp . He emigrated to Belgium with his wife. Lewin was imprisoned there on May 10, 1940, and released on May 15, 1940. He was also detained in Le Vigean and Saint-Cyprien. In 1942 he was deported from the Drancy assembly camp to Auschwitz . According to another source, he was deported from Gurs to Auschwitz on August 5, 1942 with Transport 17, Train 901-12 . Arnold Levin did not survive the Shoah . His wife was also pronounced dead. His son Jacob Lewin also fled in 1939 and was rescued by the population in Le Chambon with other refugees. Jacob Lewin emigrated to the USA and lived as Jack Lewin in New York. He died shortly before the stumbling blocks were laid in 2010.
	IRMA LEVIN GEB. LIVED HERE SPECIAL HELMET JG. DEPORTED 1896 1943 GURS MURDERED IN AUSCHWITZ in 1943	Wiesenbronner Strasse 5	Irma Levin , spelling also Lewin, geb. Sondhelm was born on May 30, 1896 in Kleinlangheim. Her parents were Hermann Sondhelm (1861–1943) and Getta (also Getha) geb. Silbermann (1866-1943). She had a brother, Max (born 1890), who died as an infant, and three sisters, Rosa Hahn (1891-1942 or after), Käthe Bergmann (1893-1944) and Babette Heilbrunn (1894-1944). She married Arnold Levin and was a housewife. The couple had two children, including their son Jacob (Jack Lewin after emigrating to the USA), born on April 26, 1925 in Würzburg. The son could be brought to safety abroad. The Lewin couple emigrated to Belgium, at least for Irma Lewin July 13, 1939 was the date of emigration. In May 1940 she was in the Drancy assembly camp. According to Yad Vashem, they and their husband Arnold Lewin were deported from Gurs to Auschwitz on Transport 17, train 901-12, on August 5, 1942 . The transport arrived at Auschwitz on August 13, 1942. Like her husband, Irma Lewin did not survive the Shoah . Her parents fled to Holland in 1939, but she and all of Irma Lewin's sisters were also murdered by the Nazi regime during the Shoah . The son survived in exile. He died in Woodmere , New York State in 2010 .
	HERE LIVED GETTA SONDHELM GEB. SILBERMANN JG. 1,866 deported in 1943 MURDERED IN AUSCHWITZ	Wiesenbronner Strasse 5	Getta Sondhelm , née Silbermann, was born on November 1st, 1866 in Walsdorf. She was married to Hermann Sondhelm , a cheese wholesaler. The couple had five children: Max (born 1890, died eight months later), Rosa (born 1891, later married Hahn), Käthe (born 1893, later married Bergmann), Babette (born 1894, later married Heilbrunn) and Irma (born 1896). In 1939 the Sondhelm couple fled to Holland. In 1943 Getta Sondhelm and her husband were interned in the Westerbork transit camp. Her husband died there on August 31, 1943. Getta Sondhelm was deported from Westerborg to Auschwitz in 1943 and murdered there on November 19, 1943. All of Getta Sondhelm's daughters and sons-in-law did not survive the Shoah, and several grandchildren were also murdered. In Kitzingen there are stumbling blocks for her daughter Rosa and her son-in-law Simon Hahn as well as for the grandson Justin Joachim Hahn.
	HERMANN SONDHELM JG LIVED HERE . 1861 ESCAPE 1939 AMSTERDAM INTERNED WESTERBORK DEAD 31.8.1943	Wiesenbronner Strasse 5	Hermann Sondhelm was born on November 27, 1861 in Kleinlangheim. He was a cheese wholesaler and married to Getta , née Silbermann. The couple had five children: Max (born 1890, died as an infant), Rosa (born 1891, later married Hahn), Käthe (born 1893, later married Bergmann), Babette (born 1894, later married Heilbrunn) and Irma (born 1896). He and his wife fled to Amsterdam. Both were arrested and interned in Westerbork. Hermann Sondheim lost his life there on August 31, 1943. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Diemen . His wife was deported to Auschwitz and murdered there on November 19, 1943 by the Nazi regime. All four daughters and their husbands were also murdered by the Nazi regime as part of the Shoah : Rosa and her husband after deportation to Izbica, the other daughters and two sons-in-law in Auschwitz, the fourth son-in-law in Theresienstadt. At least one of his grandchildren was also murdered by the Nazi regime. Justin Joachim Hahn lost his life in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

Quote

“With the Stolpersteine ​​here in Kleinlangheim we want to set a sign of reconciliation and lift the cloak of silence that has long lay over this dark part of Kleinlangheim's history. With the stumbling blocks we want to point out the injustice that our ancestors have done to these people. Since the realization of the plan to set the stones took some time in Kleinlangheim, [Jack] Lewin, [the son of the murdered, note], was unfortunately no longer able to see this "

- Roland Lewandowski : Mayor of Kleinlangheim

laying

Two stumbling blocks were laid in 2010 in Gunter Demnig's absence. Present were Mayor Roland Lewandowski and Pastor Gerhard Homuth, the deputy mayor, a local council, as well as Dagmar Voßkühler, chairwoman of the Old Synagogue Association , and the historian Michael Schneeberger. The latter had extensively researched the history of the Sondhelm, Lewin families and the other Jewish families who had lived in Kleinlangheim for centuries. He emphasized that it was a heartfelt wish from Jack Lewin that his parents and grandparents would be remembered with stumbling blocks. Another laying took place on May 27, 2014, and the two stones that were laid in 2010 were also laid again.

Web links

• Chronicle of the laying of the stumbling blocks on the website of Gunter Demnig's project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area: Kleinlangheim (Unterfranken / Bavaria) , accessed on August 17, 2019
2. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names : ARNOLD LEWIN , based on a 2005 report by his son, accessed December 6, 2019
3. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Arnold Lewin , based on a 1999 report by his son, accessed December 6, 2019
4. ↑ alemannia-judaica.de: Kleinlangheim accessed on December 6, 2019
5. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Arnold Lewin , accessed December 6, 2019
6. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Arnold Levin , based on Serge Klarsfeld: Memorial to the Jews deported from France 1942-1944
7. ↑ Commemorative Book Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945: Lewin, Arnold , accessed on December 6, 2019
8. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Arnold Lewin , based on a report from his son from 1990, accessed on December 6, 2019
9. ↑ Main-Post: Lifting the cloak of silence , accessed on December 6, 2019
10. ↑ according to other information also May 3, 1896 and May 5, 1896
11. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: IRMA LOWIN (misspelling) , based on Serge Klarsfeld: Memorial to the Jews deported from France 1942-1944
12. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933-1945: Lewin, Irma , accessed on December 6, 2019
13. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Irma Levin.Retrieved December 6, 2019
14. ↑ [The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names]: ROSA HAHN , based on a report by her son Lothar Hahn, accessed on December 24, 2019
15. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: KAETHE BERGMANN , based on one of her sister-in-law Betty Wolff, accessed on December 24, 2019
16. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Babette Heilbrunn based on the memorial book Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945, accessed on December 24, 2019
17. ^ Yad Vashem: Figure from Yizkor Book of the Kitzingen Community with Names and Biographic Data of Jews who perishes during the Holocaust , accessed on December 24, 2012
18. ^ Commemorative book victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933-1945: Sondhelm, Getha Getta Gertha Geta , accessed on December 24, 2019
19. ↑ Yad Vashem has further reports on Geta Sondhelm, all accessed on December 24, 2019:
    • GETTA GETA SONDHELM , based on a report from her grandson Lothar Hahn,
    • GETTA GETA SONDHELM , based on the memorial book of the Federal Archives,
    • GETTA SONDHELM , based on the Dutch data collection In Memoriam - Netherlands oorlogsslachtoffers .
20. ↑ The Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , ed. from the Federal Archives of the Federal Republic of Germany has the following entries on the couple's children, all accessed on December 24, 2019:
    • Rooster, pink ,
    • Bergmann, Käthe ,
    • Heilbrunn, Babette ,
    • Lewin, Irma , presumably with the wrong date of birth.
21. ^ European Cultural Center in Thuringia, Erfurt, Research Group "History of the Jews in National Socialist Thuringia": Jews in Thuringia 1933-1945 - Biographical data
22. ↑ Yad Vashem has several reports from her grandson Lothar Hahn (incorrectly transcribed several times in the database), all accessed on December 24, 2019:
    • Submitter Chen Lotar ,
    • Submitter Hahn Lothar ,
    • Submit Yehuda Lotar Han ,
    • Submitter Yehuda Lotar ,
    • Submitter Lotar Lothar Han .
23. ↑ Yad Vashem has four reports on the person, both accessed on December 24, 2019:
    • HERMANN SONDHELM , based on a report from his grandson Lothar Hahn,
    • HERMAN I SONDHELM , based on List of persecuted persons, found in Lists of Jews from the Netherlands who perished in various camps, 1941-1943 ,
    • HERMANN SONDHELM , based on Yizkor book of the Kitzingen community with names and biographic data of Jews who perished during the Holocaust ,
    • HERMANN SONDHELM , based on the memorial book of the Federal Archives.
24. ↑ The Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , ed. from the Federal Archives of the Federal Republic of Germany has the following entries on the relatives of the Sondhelm couple, all accessed on December 24, 2019:
    • Hahn, Simon ,
    • Bergmann, Fritz ,
    • Heilbrunn, Emil ,
    • Lewin, Arnold ,
    • Hahn, Justin Joachim
25. ^ Ralf Weiskopf: Kleinlangheim. Lift the mantle of silence . Main-Post , November 14, 2010.