List of stumbling blocks in Torgau

The list of the stumbling blocks in Torgau contains pitfalls that, during the recall the fate of the people of this city during the Nazi era were murdered by the Nazi regime, deported, expelled or driven to suicide. The first eleven stumbling blocks were laid by the artist Gunter Demnig on February 27, 2020.

Stumbling blocks in Torgau

Eleven stumbling blocks were moved to four addresses on Thursday, February 27, 2020 in Torgau . The memorial project was initiated by Prof. Elvira Dreßen, who became aware of the fate of the Isaacsohn couple from Torgau during a visit to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem . Further research was carried out by the Torgau Documentation and Information Center .

Laying stumbling blocks

image	inscription	Location	Installation date	Remarks
	Gertrud Isaacsohn, née Rosenthal, born in 1882, lived here . Deported 1942 / Riga Murdered	Karl-Marx-Platz 2 51.558017 ° N, 12.994694 ° E	February 27, 2020	The couple lost their Rosenthal textile department store on Bäckerstrasse after the Reichspogromnacht in November 1938. They had not succeeded in emigrating.
	Max Isaacsohn, born in 1883, lived here . Deported 1942 Riga Murdered
	This is where Dr. Kurt Behmack, born 1887, banned from working in 1938, escaped from Paraguay in 1939	Karl-Marx-Platz 6 51.557412 ° N, 12.995663 ° E	February 27, 2020	The practice of Dr. Behmack was visited on the night of the Reichspogrom and his patient files were confiscated.
	Gertrud Ahlfeld, née Hesse, born in 1879, lived here . Escape 1939 England 1940 USA	August-Bebel-Strasse 15 51.558343 ° N, 12.99372 ° E	February 27, 2020	The department store Ahlfeld was devastated in the Reichpogramnacht.
	Selmar Ahlfeld, née Hesse, born in 1869, lived here . Humiliated / disenfranchised dead 2.8.1937
	Luise Ahlfeld, born in 1902, lived here . Escape 1939 England 1940 USA
	Max Kurkurutz, born in 1891, lived here . "Protective custody" 1938 Buchenwald professional ban 1938 Escape 1938 USA	Breite Strasse 4 (then Hermann-Göring-Strasse) 51.558128 ° N, 13.000321 ° E	February 27, 2020	Max Kukurutz had his dental practice in this house. He spent seven weeks in the Buchenwald concentration camp before he could emigrate to the USA. His family could only follow him there after the end of the war.
	Wolfgang Kurkurutz, born in 1926, lived here . Relocated involuntarily . 1939 Leipzig. Arrested. Forced labor, Osterode. Survived
	Here lived Doris Kurkurutz Born pride Hein Jg. 1892 Involuntarily warped 1939 Leipzig survived with the help
	Here lived Hans-Jochen Kurkurutz Jg. 1930 Involuntarily warped 1939 Leipzig school ban in 1943 with the help survive
	Eva Kurkurutz, born in 1922, lived here . Relocated involuntarily Buchenwald 1939 Leipzig Survived with help

Web links

• Stumbling block website by Gunter Demnig
• Documentation and Information Center (DIZ) Torgau
• Project BRUCH | PIECES

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chronicle. In: Stolpersteine. Retrieved April 2, 2020 . 
2. ^ Elisabeth Kohlhaas: Stolpersteine ​​relocated in Torgau. Documentation and Information Center (DIZ) Torgau, February 27, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2020 . 
3. ^ First stumbling blocks in Torgau. In: '' Torgauer Stadtzeitung ''. February 22, 2020, accessed April 2, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Pogrom and Education (2): What was where? A city tour through Torgau 1933–1945. In: BruchStücke: The November pogroms in Saxony 1938 - a research project. July 8, 2018, accessed April 2, 2020 . 

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