List of stumbling blocks in Ottweiler

Stumbling blocks from Elise and Oskar Coblenz in front of the Wilhelm-Heinrich-Straße 36 property in Ottweiler

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

The concrete blocks with a size of width 96 mm × depth 96 cm × height 100 mm with a brass plaque are embedded in the sidewalk in front of the houses in which the victims were once at home. The inscription on the plaque gives information about their name, age and fate. The stumbling blocks are intended to counteract the oblivion of the victims of the National Socialist tyranny.

The laying of the first stumbling blocks in Ottweiler took place on February 21, 2014. On that day, Demnig laid a total of ten stumbling blocks to remind three families.

A second laying campaign followed on April 21, 2015, during which a total of 11 new stumbling blocks were laid. The relocation was part of a supporting program. So intercessions were held and the biographies were sketched out by pupils from the Ottweiler grammar school and the Anton Hansen community school . A memorial hour was then held.

A third relocation took place on September 8, 2016. The Herrmann and Salomon families, the Marx couple and Caroline Herrmann in Ottweiler were given memorial stones. As in 2015, a similar supporting program was held.

The fourth relocation by Gunter Demnig took place on October 30, 2018. For the first time in Ottweiler, the stumbling blocks for those politically persecuted were relocated, namely those of the Maas, Pabst and John families and Heinrich Werner. On this day 13 stumbling blocks were laid.

Surname	Location	Laying date	Life
Emma Barth	Gossip 42	50140221 ♠Feb 21, 2014	Old dealer Heinrich Barth (born January 5, 1878) married his wife Emma, née Schwarz (born December 4, 1842) on February 21, 1903 in Illingen. The two sons Friedrich (born December 10, 1903) and Max (born February 20, 1905) emerged from the marriage. Both trained as a commercial assistant to later take over the family business. During the National Socialist era , both sons emigrated to the United States and thus survived the Holocaust. The couple Heinrich and Emma Barth, however, but were under the Wagner-Bürckel action to Auschwitz brought there and killed in 1942.
Friedrich Barth
Heinrich Barth
Max Barth
Alfred Cahn	Wilhelm-Heinrich-Strasse 12	50140221 ♠Feb 21, 2014	Alfred (born 1881) and Gertrude, née Grümebaum, Cahn (born 1897) ran a furniture store in Ottweiler. The two had two daughters together, Edith (born December 31, 1922) and Marianne (born September 11, 1924). While the National Socialists had already taken power in the German Reich , Cahn hid relatives from the Ruhr area in their house, who fled to France. When the Saar area became part of the Third Reich after the Saar referendum , the furniture business was affected by boycott measures. Alfred Cahn was arrested for the first time in 1935 and severely abused by the Gestapo . The second arrest followed in 1938 as part of the Reichspogromnacht . Alfred Cahn came to Dachau , but was released shortly afterwards. Nevertheless he stayed in Ottweiler. Attempts to emigrate failed due to the lack of family support. They had to sell their house, whereby the father-in-law enriched himself with the remaining family fortune, and temporarily stayed with a family friend. As part of the Bürckel-Wagner campaign , Alfred and Gertrude Cahn came to Auschwitz , where they were both murdered on August 16, 1942. Her two daughters came to Stutthof concentration camp , where they were murdered in October 1944.
Edith Cahn
Gertrud Cahn
Marianne Cahn
Elise Coblenz	Wilhelm-Heinrich-Strasse 36	50140221 ♠Feb 21, 2014	Oskar Coblenz (born on May 3, 1863 in Ottweiler) lived in Berlin since 1893. He worked there as the head of a branch of the Calmann-Lévy publishing house and as a general agent for Germany and Austria-Hungary , and he also ran the expedition bookstore for the general medical central newspaper. He was married to Elise, née Boas (born on December 17, 1884 in Amsterdam ). After the seizure of power , the family fled to Ottweiler in order to evade the access of the National Socialists. When the Saar area was reorganized, the couple emigrated a second time, this time to Amsterdam, Elise Coblenz's hometown. They were arrested there in April 1943. Both perished in the Sobibor concentration camp .
Oskar Coblenz	Wilhelm-Heinrich-Strasse 36	50140221 ♠Feb 21, 2014
Caroline Herrmann	Castle courtyard 4 at the synagogue memorial stone	50160908 ♠08 Sep 2016
Myrtil Herrmann	Bahnhofstrasse 25	50160908 ♠08 Sep 2016
Germania Herrmann
Edmond Myrtil Herrmann
Artur Salm	Parking lot of service building II of the District Office	50150421 ♠Apr 21, 2015	Before the Bürckel campaign , the Jewish Salm family was able to flee to France. However, Artur's father was later arrested in France and then murdered in Auschwitz . His wife Mathilde and the twin couple Marliese and Margareth survived the war.
Mathilde Salm
Marliese Salm
Margareth Salm
Max Salm	Parking lot of service building II of the District Office	50150421 ♠Apr 21, 2015	Max Salm lived with his wife Emilie as a cattle dealer in Ottweiler since 1890. The couple had two children: Ilse and Fritz. The entire family was arrested on October 22, 1940 during the Bürckel operation and initially moved to Gurs . While Max Salm was murdered in the Majdanek concentration camp , his wife Milli and his two children died in Auschwitz.
Milli Salm
Fritz Salm
Use Salm
Julius Salm	Enggass 5	50150421 ♠Apr 21, 2015	Julius Salm was born in Ottweiler and moved to Dortmund in 1918 , where he lived with his wife Erna Salm, née Lewin. Their son Kurt was born in 1923. The family returned to Ottweiler in 1930, as Julius Salm promised himself a career as a businessman. After the referendum in 1935 , the family fled to Paris, where Julius founded a factory for making ties. Julius Salm died in 1939. Erna Salm and her son fled to Lyon . When the city was occupied, the two stayed underground. Kurt Salm was discovered during a raid in May 1944 and murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 . Erna Salm survived the war penniless and in bad mental and physical condition. She spent her old age with friends in Israel .
Erna Salm
Kurt Salm
Leo Salomon	Tenschstrasse 25	50160908 ♠08 Sep 2016
Bertha Salomon
Flora Salomon
Horst Marx
Rosa Marx
Frieda John	Gäßling 25	50181030 ♠Oct. 30, 2018
Frieda Amalia John
Helmut John
Hermann John
Karl Friedrich John
Karl Heinz John
Lore Lotte John
Walter Pabst	Goethestrasse 13	50181030 ♠Oct. 30, 2018
Kurt Pabst
Otto Pabst
Berta Maas
Herbert Maas
Heinrich Werner	Wilhelm-Heinrich-Strasse 26	50181030 ♠Oct. 30, 2018