List of stumbling blocks in Wörth am Main

This list of stumbling blocks in Wörth am Main contains the stumbling stones that were laid by Gunter Demnig in the Lower Franconian town of Wörth am Main 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 Wörth am Main.

The 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm large concrete blocks with brass plaques are embedded in the sidewalk in front of the houses where 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 “Stolpersteine” project in Wörth am Main had already been presented at a city council meeting in 2008. All city councilors were of the opinion that this part of history should not be forgotten in Wörth either. The prerequisite for the implementation of this form of commemoration was the consent of the surviving dependents of the Jewish families. After contacting the current homeowners in order to obtain their consent to the laying of stumbling blocks in front of their property, it was decided in June 2015 to lay the stumbling blocks.

After the laying of the 16 stumbling blocks on April 24, 2017, the commemorative plaque “Mitten unter uns” at the old town hall was presented to the public in a ceremony on the afternoon of the same day. In the evening, with the concert “Jewish Music”, the double exhibition “In the Middle Among Us: Rural Jews in Lower Franconia from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century” and “Jewish Life in the City of Wörth am Main” opened in the Maritime Museum .

Laying stumbling blocks

address	Surname	inscription	Laying date	image	annotation
Weberstrasse 2 ( location )	Alfred Fernheimer	ALFRED FERNHEIMER JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED 1871 1942 THERESIENSTADT MURDERED May 16, 1943	April 24, 2017	Stumbling block	The couple ran a cattle and manufactured goods trade until they moved. These businesses were deregistered in 1938. It is not known when the two left Wörth. They moved to Dresden and were deported from there.
	Sara Fernheimer	HERE LIVED SARA REMOTE HEIMER GEB. ROSENSTOCK JG. DEPORTED 1877 1942 THERESIENSTADT MURDERED January 23, 1944	April 24, 2017	Stumbling block
Rathausstrasse 41 ( location )	Babette Fernheimer	BABETTE FERNHEIMER JG LIVED HERE . 1882 DEPORTED 1940 GURS INTERNIERT DRANCY DEPORTED 1942 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED AUG. 1942	April 24, 2017	Image wanted	Unmarried Babette Fernheimer was the owner of a shoe shop in Wörth until 1935 and moved to Mannheim on October 2, 1935. She was deported to Gurs on October 22, 1940 and to Auschwitz on August 10, 1942. There she was probably murdered as soon as she arrived.
Rathausstrasse 45 ( location )	David Herrmanns	DAVID HERRMANNS JG LIVED HERE . 1859 HUMILIATED / DISRIGHTS DEAD November 29, 1934	April 24, 2017	Stumbling block	The two married on March 11, 1891 in Wörth am Main, Jenny (also Jenni) was their only child. After his death, Sophie continued her husband's groceries business until November 1938.
	Sophie Herrmanns	HERE LIVED SOPHIE HERRMANNS GEB. BERLINER JG. DEPORTED 1859 1942 THERESIENSTADT MURDERED October 8, 1942	April 24, 2017	Stumbling block
	Jenny Hart	HERE LIVED JENNY HART GEB. HERRMANNS JG. 1891 HUMILIATED / Disenfranchised WITH HELP SURVIVE	April 24, 2017	Stumbling blocks	On June 22, 1912, Jenny Herrmanns married the Catholic Otto Hart, who was a parish clerk in the town of Wörth am Main. The couple with their two children were treated like a Jewish family, but escaped deportation to an extermination camp. Jenny Hart was the only Jewish woman who survived the Nazi era alive in Wörth.
	Norbert Hart	NORBERT HART JG LIVED HERE . 1916 ESCAPED 1933 SWEDEN	April 24, 2017	Stumbling block
	Walter Hart	WALTER HART JG LIVED HERE . 1933 HUMILIATED / Disenfranchised WITH HELP SURVIVE	April 24, 2017	Stumbling block
Rathausstrasse 30 ( location )	Bertha Berliner	HERE LIVED BERTHA BERLINER JG. 1866 HUMILATED / DISRUSTED DEAD June 28, 1938	April 24, 2017	Stumbling blocks	Bertha Berliner was the mother of eight children. Son Julius died in World War I, and Isidor and Wally emigrated to America at the end of the 1920s.
	Frieda Berliner	FRIEDA BERLINER JG LIVED HERE . 1897 ESCAPE 1933 USA	April 24, 2017	Stumbling blocks	Bertha's children Frieda, Walter and Meda managed to emigrate to America in the 1930s.
	Walter Berliner	WALTER BERLINER JG LIVED HERE . 1906 ESCAPE 1938 USA	April 24, 2017	Stumbling blocks
	Meda Speier	HERE LIVED MEDA GARGOYLE GEB. BERLINER JG. 1907 ESCAPE 1938 USA	April 24, 2017	Stumbling blocks
	Samuel Berliner	SAMUEL BERLINER JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED IN 1899 1942 KRASNYSTAV MURDERED	April 24, 2017	Stumbling blocks	Samuel (called Sally) ran a butcher's shop in Wörth am Main, which was commercially deregistered in early 1938. It is not known exactly when the Wörth family left. The son Herrmann was born in Wörth, daughter Mathel was born on December 27, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main, where the family lived until they were deported.
	Kathinka Berliner	HERE LIVED KATHINKA BERLINER GEB. GERNSHEIMER JG. DEPORTED 1908 1942 KRASNYSTAV MURDERED	April 24, 2017	Stumbling block
	Herrmann Berliner	HERRMANN BERLINER JG LIVED HERE . 1,935 deported in 1942 KRASNYSTAW MURDERED	April 24, 2017	Stumbling block
	Mathel Berliner	MATHEL BERLINER JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED 1939 1942 KRASNYSTAV MURDERED	April 24, 2017	Stumbling block

Web links

• Gunter Demnig: Stolpersteine - website of the project
• Wörth am Main (Miltenberg district) - Jewish history / synagogue. Alemannia Judaica - Working group for research into the history of Jews in southern Germany and the neighboring region, October 19, 2017, accessed on March 7, 2018 (page on the history of the Jewish community in Wörth am Main, shows photographs of the stumbling blocks). 
• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area: Wörth (Lower Franconia / Bavaria). Retrieved March 7, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the city council: Stumbling blocks. Free voters Wörth am Main, accessed on March 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ “Day of Remembrance” - laying the stumbling block. In: Official Journal of the City of Wörth No. 1185. April 7, 2017, accessed on March 7, 2018 (reproduction of the Official Journal at www.alemannia-judaica.de). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Matthias Rau and Karin Schirmeister: Laying “Stolpersteinen” in Wörth am Main on April 24, 2017. Accessed on March 7, 2018 . 

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