List of stumbling blocks in Lorsch

The list of stumbling blocks in Lorsch contains all the stumbling blocks that were laid by Gunter Demnig in Lorsch as part of the project of the same name . They are intended to commemorate the victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in Lorsch.

Laying stumbling blocks

address	Laying date	Person, inscription	image	annotation
Bahnhofstrasse 8	0August 8, 2019	Here lived Hermann Lorch Jg. 1871 'protective custody' 1938 Dachau flight 1939 United States		Hermann Lorch ran the family's office building, a hardware store, at Bahnhofstrasse 8. The business was founded by Hermann's uncle Simon Lorch, who also built a new Lorsch synagogue on the neighboring property in 1884. The hardware store was one of the larger local shops, and later a petroleum store and a building materials store were added. After the 1938 pogrom, Hermann was taken to the Dachau concentration camp, but was able to escape in 1939. The commercial building initially fell to the Sparkasse, in 1943 the municipality bought it; it was demolished in the mid-1950s and the property was rebuilt.
		Frieda Lorch nee lived here . Lehmann, born 1875, escaped 1939 USA		Frieda Lorch and her husband had four children, Bella, Jakob III, Paul and Albert. Albert emigrated before 1933, Bella became a child nurse, married in Frankfurt and fled to California with her husband in 1939. Frieda was left alone after the 1938 pogrom; the boycott ruined the business. Eventually the family lost all of their property. Together with Hermann and Paul, Frieda managed to get a passage to the USA just in time in August 1939. The family then lived in Baltimore.
		Jakob Lorch III, born in 1901, lived here . Escape 1937 USA		Jakob was completely absorbed in his father's business, but went to New York in 1937 because there was no longer any future for Jews in Germany.
		Here lived Paul Lorch Jg. 1905 'protective custody' in 1938 Buchwald flight 1939 United States		Unlike his brother, Paul stayed with his parents. After the 1938 pogrom, father Hermann was brought to Dachau, Paul to Buchenwald. According to witnesses, Paul was badly mistreated there. Together with his parents, Paul was able to flee to the USA.
Bahnhofstrasse 13	0March 8, 2017	Here lived Aron Lorch Jg. 1871 'protective custody' 1938 sick to transport dead 16.01.1939 Rothschild Hospital Frankfurt M.		Aron Lorch was the son of a timber merchant and ran a coal shop where there is now a Volksbank building. Aron Lorch disappeared without a trace on November 10, 1938 during the pogrom from Lorsch at the time. His grave was not found until 2016 in Frankfurt, where he died in January 1939 in the Jewish hospital as a victim of the pogrom.
		Bertha Lorch nee lived here . Krämer born in 1877 deported. 1942 Piaski murdered
Bahnhofstrasse 15	0March 8, 2017	Alfred Lorch, born in 1899, lived here . 'Protective custody' 1933 Osthofen 1938 Buchenwald deported 1942 Piaski murdered		Alfred Lorch, Aron's brother, took over the father's ailing timber business, but could not prevent the bankruptcy and moved into the neighboring house, Bahnhofstrasse 13. Escape was planned, but impossible due to the imminent birth of the third child.
		Franziska Lorch nee lived here . Oppenheimer born in 1903 deported. 1942 Piaski murdered
		Martin Lorch, born in 1927 , lived here, deported in 1942, Piaski murdered on August 4th , 1942 Majdanek
		Margarethe Lorch, born in 1931 , lived here, deported in 1942, murdered Piaski
		Eli Lorch, born 1940 , lived here, deported in 1942, murdered Piaski
Bahnhofstrasse 18	0March 8, 2017	Here lived victory Bertmann Jg. 1904 'protective custody' in 1933 Osthofen 1938 Buchenwald deported 1,943 Auschwitz murdered 03/15/1944		Siegbert Mann was married to a Catholic woman and last lived in the Palais von Hausen. He worked as a shoe and leather dealer and was first noticed by the Nazis shortly after the seizure of power, when he posed as a Nazi in Worms and ended up in the Osthofen concentration camp. In revenge, all Lorsch Jews were then brought to Osthofen in a group arrest for one week in 1933. Since the family lived in the synagogue's former teachers' house in 1938, they were the first to witness the November pogrom. Siegbert Mann lived under threat in Lorsch until he was arrested in 1943 and came to Auschwitz in 1944, where he was murdered.
Bahnhofstrasse 33	October 27, 2019	Lina Schnauzer nee lived here . Marx born in 1875 deported 1942 Theresienstadt murdered May 16, 1944 Auschwitz		Lina Marx was born in Lorsch. After the marriage, she initially followed her husband Menachem, who came from Galicia, to Jena; on her return to her hometown she was listed as "stateless". The attempt to apply for a new passport failed despite neighborly help; instead she was denounced and punished. In 1940 her efforts to obtain a visa for England were also in vain - the same happened to her sister-in-law Mathilde. Descendants of the family, who after the war hoped for at least a few mementos as part of an application for reparation, went away empty-handed, because the household goods had been auctioned in front of the houses.
		Mathilde Marx nee lived here . Haas born in 1875 deported 1942 Theresienstadt murdered March 22, 1943		Mathilde Marx came from Nauheim. From 1908, she and her husband Josef ran the long-established Jewish commercial building (founded in 1836). Beds, bed springs, white linen and other manufactured goods were sold. After Josef's death in October 1935, Mathilde lived alone with her only son Simon and had to give up the business because of the boycott of the Jews. During this time, Josef's older sister Lina Schnauzer, nee. Marx, from Jena back to Lorsch and lived in the house.
		Here lived Simon Marx Jg. 1913 'protective custody' in 1938 Buchwald flight 1939 United States		Simon Marx was brought to Buchenwald together with other Lorsch Jews in 1938, where he was forced to leave the country. He was able to obtain one of the coveted visas for the United States and fled via Holland after the start of the war in December 1939. In 1955, Simon described the events in Buchenwald concerning Lorsch Jews in an affidavit. He lived and died in New York in 1962.
Bahnhofstrasse 41	0August 8, 2019	Bella Guthof, born in 1896, lived here . Escape 1935 USA		Bella and Leo Guthof were the only Lorsch descendants of a previously large family during the Nazi era. Bella followed her brothers to New York in 1935. Nathan and Fanny Guthof once lived in the house, a registered cultural monument, with their seven children in the seventh and eighth generation. The parents died before World War II, in which three of Bella's four oldest brothers were also killed. Her brother Heinrich moved to Schwäbisch Hall and married Minna Wertheimer there; they fled to New York in 1939. Benno Guthof moved to Mainz in 1920 and before the seizure of power to New York, where he became a lawyer; after the war he represented emigrated Lorsch Jews in their compensation proceedings.
		Here lived Leo Guthof Jg. 1898 'protective custody' in 1938 Buchwald flight 1940 United States		Leo Guthof was a successful traveling salesman. After the pogrom in 1938 he was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp. After a failed escape via Cuba, he returned to Lorsch; in the winter of 1940 he fled again, now to Genoa, and made it to the USA on a ship. The only descendant of the seven Guthof siblings is Heinrich's daughter Hannelore. She lives in New Jersey and has three children and several grandchildren.
Bahnhofstrasse 75	0August 8, 2019	Hedwig Jakob nee lived here . Hoffmann, born in 1883, humiliated / disenfranchised Escape to death 9.2.1938		Hedwig Jakob and her sister Jenny Oppenheimer came from Hüffenhardt in what is now the Neckar-Odenwald district. Hedwig came to Lorsch with her son Benno after her divorce from Julius Jakob. She opened a shoe and stationery shop in Wamsler's house on Marktplatz 3, where she and her son also lived in the 1920s. She later moved in with Benno to live with her sister. The sisters were deprived of their property, and it also made escape impossible. In the end, Hedwig and Jenny took their own lives because of the hopeless situation.
		Benno Jakob, born in 1911, lived here . Escape 1936 USA		Benno Jakob lived with his mother on the market square in the 1920s, after 1928 they both moved to his aunt Jenny Oppenheimer. In 1936 Benno and his cousin Selma Hofmann fled from Hüffenhardt to America, mother and aunt were supposed to follow suit. Benno lived with his cousin in Brooklyn until his death.
		Jenny Oppenheimer nee lived here . Hofmann, born in 1881, humiliated / disenfranchised Escape to death 9.2.1938		Jenny Oppenheimer was the widow of the wealthy businessman Zacharias Oppenheimer, who died in 1928. After Zacharias' death, Hedwig Jakob moved in with Jenny, who helped her in her business until the boycott-related sale in 1936. In an attempt to get enough foreign currency from the large savings and inheritance assets to flee, Jenny Oppenheimer and Hedwig Jakob filed a voluntary report with the Heppenheim tax office. But Jews were not allowed to own foreign stocks, so that they were punished and emigration was impossible. On the night of February 9, 1938, the sisters opened the gas tap in their house, and both died on the same day in Darmstadt.
Bahnhofstrasse 77	0August 8, 2019	Otto Mayer, born in 1891, lived here . Escape 1939 Holland interned Westerbork deported 1942 Auschwitz murdered November 27 , 1942		Otto Mayer came from Mannheim. He married Emma Oppenheimer and from 1909 continued the business of his late father-in-law. After the Lorsch pogroms Otto and Emma sent their son Friedrich to Holland and came after the dissolution of their household in mid-1939. But the family could not escape and was ultimately murdered in Auschwitz.
		Emma Mayer nee lived here . Oppenheimer born 1893 Escape 1939 Holland interned Westerbork deported 1942 Auschwitz murdered November 27 , 1942		Emma Mayer was the youngest daughter of Leopold Oppenheimer (1854–1909). His leather purchases for Adler & Oppenheimer in Strasbourg were very profitable; Leopold's half-brother Ferdinand was the founder and partner of what was then the largest leather factory in Europe. After her father's death, Emma married Otto Mayer, they lived in the inherited Lorsch house and Otto continued his father-in-law's business.
		Friedrich Mayer, born in 1926, lived here . Flucht 1939 Holland interned Westerbork deported 1942 Auschwitz murdered March 31, 1944		After the Lorsch pogroms, Friedrich was sent to Holland by his parents, where they followed in mid-1939. But the family was interned in the Westerbork concentration camp and deported to Auschwitz. Friedrich had to do forced labor until March 1944, when he too was murdered before he was 18 years old.
Kirchstrasse 12	October 27, 2018	Here lived Abraham Abraham Jg. 1854 'protective custody' 1938 Dachau flight 1939 France dead 02.11.1943		Abraham Abraham and his family had lived here since 1853, they operated a department store and an emigration agency and enjoyed an excellent reputation. The Lorschers named the street Süsskind-Gass' after the founder of the shop, Süsskind Abraham. The shop and apartment on Kirchstrasse were vandalized and looted in November 1938.
		Here lived Sigmund Abraham Jg. 1892 'protective custody' 1938 Dachau flight 1939 France interned Drancy deported in 1942 murdered in Auschwitz
		Johanna Abraham born here lived here . Wachenheimer born in 1904 Escape 1939 France interned Drancy deported 1942 murdered in Auschwitz		Johanna came from Zwingenberg and ran the small department store with her husband Sigmund. The main focus of activity was the fabric trade and the associated upholstery.
		Claude K. Abraham born in 1931 lived here . Escape 1939 France 1942 Transport Drancy Escape succeeded with help and survived		Kurt later called himself Claude Abraham and lives in Los Angeles. The childhood memory of the looting and devastation of the parental home was captured by Claude in the book "On the Raft". Claude Abraham has been the honorary ring bearer of the city of Lorsch since 2001.
Nibelungenstrasse 56 Lorsch	0July 9, 2015	Berthold Kahn, born in 1928, lived here . Escape 1939 England 1939 Canada
		Ernst Kahn, born in 1925, lived here . Escape 1939 England 1939 Canada
		Fritz Kahn, born in 1929, lived here . Escape 1939 Canada
		Gustine Mainzer born in 1897 lived here . 1939 Heppenheim Sanatorium 'relocated' Hadamar murdered February 4, 1941 Action T4
		Heinz Kahn, born in 1931, lived here, Escape 1939 Canada
		Karola Kahn nee lived here . Mainz born in 1902, escaped from Canada in 1939
		Here lived Leopold Kahn Jg. 1892 'protective custody' in 1933, Osthofen 1938 Buchenwald flight 1939 Canada
		Otto Kahn, born in 1934, lived here, escaped 1939 Canada
		Rosa Mainzer nee lived here . Neuberger, born 1871, escaped from Canada in 1939
Schulstrasse 18	0July 9, 2015	Johanna Mainzer nee lived here . Mayer born in 1863 deported 1942 Theresienstadt murdered March 5, 1943
		Regina Josef, born in 1878 , lived here, deported in 1942, murdered Piaski

Web links

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

• stolpersteine.eu
• Query example of stumbling blocks entered in OSM

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Twelve new stumbling blocks: Behind each there is a fate. Bergsträßer Anzeiger, August 1, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Claudia Stehle: More stumbling blocks in Lorsch. Darmstädter Echo, March 9, 2017 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Nina Schmelzing: Seven stumbling blocks recall the fate of Lorsch Jews. Memorial in Kirchstrasse and Bahnhofstrasse, memorial plaques relocated / Parental home of Claude Abraham and the Marx family. Bergsträßer Anzeiger, October 29, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Stolperstein reminds of honorary ring bearers. Bergsträßer Anzeiger, October 10, 2018 . 

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