List of stumbling blocks in Weimar (Thuringia)

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The list of the stumbling blocks in Weimar (Thuringia) contains the locations of the Thuringian Weimar by Gunter Demnig to commemorate the victims of National Socialism laid stumbling blocks . In addition, there is a small picture with the engraving of the stumbling blocks and the names of those affected, whose memory the stones are dedicated to. As far as is known, the laying date and a few comments on the people were noted.

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Stumbling block list

image	inscription	Surname	place	Laying date	Remarks
	HERE LIVED ESTHER ABEL GEB. VON DEN VELDEN JG. 1887 HUMILIATED / DISRIGHTS ESCAPE TO DEATH 3.4.1942	Abel, Esther	Freiherr-vom-Stein-Allee 10 (map)	0Oct 2, 2015	Esther Abel was the daughter of Adolf and Else von den Velden, b. Schadow. From 1911 she studied ornamentation, color theory and weaving at the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Applied Arts . In 1915 she married Kornel Abel , b. on August 1, 1881, an Austrian officer. Both lived in Vienna . After Austria was annexed to Germany in March 1938, they moved to Weimar in 1939 and lived with Esther's mother Else von den Velden. Kornel Abel's traces are lost in Weimar after 1940, his fate remains unexplained. According to the Nazi race legislation, Esther Abel was persecuted as a "full Jew" and ended her life on April 3, 1942 under the pressure of persecution.
	GÜNTER APPEL JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED 1924 1942 MAJDANEK MURDERED	Appel, Günter	Bruehl 6 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Günter Appel, b. on October 18, 1924 in Weimar, was the grandson of Albert and Lina Ortweiler and son of Jakob and Susanna Appel. He also had a brother Joachim Appel. Günter Appel was deported to the Belzyce ghetto via Weimar on May 10, 1942 .
	JAKOB APPEL JG LIVED HERE . 1,885 deported in 1942 MAJDANEK MURDERED	Appel, Jakob	Bruehl 6 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Jakob Appel was born on May 17, 1885 in Mansbach near Hünfeld in Hessen-Nassau . In 1920 he married Susanna, the eldest daughter of Albert and Lina Ortweiler, and a short time later took over the management of the leather business from his father-in-law at Brühl 6. On November 10, 1938, he was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp . With the Weimar deportation train on May 10, 1942, he was "resettled" to the Belzyce ghetto southwest of Lublin in Poland .
	SUSANNA APPEL GEB. LIVED HERE ORTWEILER JG. ARRESTED 1894 1941 BREITENAU CAMP DEPORTED 1942 RAVENSBRÜCK / AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 1942	Appel, Susanna	Bruehl 6 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Susanna (* 1894) and Hildegard Ortweiler (* 1900) were the daughters of Albert and Lina Ortweiler. Susanna Appel was arrested in September 1941 after a house search by the Weimar Gestapo because of a few eggs that she was not allowed to own as a Jew and shortly thereafter deported to the Breitenau labor education camp. From there they were transported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and later to the Auschwitz concentration camp . Susanna Appel died there on October 8, 1942.
	JENNY FLEISCHER-ALT GEB. LIVED HERE. OLD JG. 1863 HUMILIZED / DISRIGHTS ESCAPE TO DEATH 1942	Butcher-Alt, Jenny	Belvederer Allee 6 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Jenny Fleischer-Alt, nee Alt, was born on August 3, 1863 in Pressburg (ung. Pozsony, Slovak. Bratislava) in Slovakia . She lived in Weimar at Belvederer Allee 6. Jenny Fleischer-Alt was a well-known opera and concert singer who was honored in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in 1890 with the title of Grand Ducal Chamber Singer . She died in Weimar on the April 7, 1942 suicide by poisoning .
	ELISE FRANK JG LIVED HERE . 1874 DISTRIBUTED 22.6.1942 JACOBY'SCHE ANSTALT BENDORF-SAYN DEPORTED 1942 THERSIENSTADT MURDERED 07.08.1942	Frank, Elise	Paul-Schneider-Strasse 44 (map)	0Nov 8, 2013	Elise Frank was born in Cologne on September 10, 1874 . She lived in Weimar and in Bendorf-Sayn . There she was housed in Jacoby's institution . Due to a decree that Jewish patients from all over Germany could only be treated in the Jacoby institute, the facility became more and more of a collection camp . Between March 22, 1942 and November 11, 1942, at least 573 Jewish men and women were deported to the extermination camps in the East. Elise Frank was deported from Trier-Cologne to the Theresienstadt ghetto on July 27, 1942 , where she died on August 7, 1942.
	EDITH GÁL JG LIVED HERE . 1888 HUMILIATED / DISRUSTED ESCAPE TO DEATH 1942	Gál, Edith	Belvederer Allee 6 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Edith Gál was born on December 16, 1888 in Vienna as the first of four siblings. She died on April 11, 1942, like her aunt Jenny Fleischer-Alt, a suicide through poisoning. The main reason for this was the hopeless financial situation, due to the death of her sick mother Ilka Gál, whose medical and hospital costs could not be paid, and the fear of being transported to a concentration camp.
	ILKA GÁL GEB. LIVED HERE. OLD JG. 1867 DEAD 1942	Gál, Ilka	Belvederer Allee 6 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Ilka Gál was the younger sister of Jenny Fleischer-Alt. Ilka's husband Josef Gál was a homeopathic doctor in Vienna. They both had four children: Edith (* 1888), Hans (* 1890), Margarethe (* 1895) and Ernestine (* 1899). In 1926 Ilka Gál widowed and fled penniless in 1939 with her daughter Edith from Vienna to Weimar to her sister Jenny Fleischer-Alt. Ilka Gál suffered from a heart condition and her sister found it very difficult to finance her medical needs due to the "safety order". Ilka died on March 4, 1942 as a result of an accident .
	WALLY GOLDSCHMIDT JG LIVED HERE . DEPORTED IN 1891, 1942 MURDERED BELZYCE	Goldschmidt, Wally	Martersteigstrasse 6 (map)	Oct 10, 2014	Wally Goldschmidt, b. January 22nd, 1891, came from the Elberfeld family of the lawyer Julius Goldschmidt and Henriette, b. Rosskam. She was deported to the Belzyce ghetto via Weimar on May 10, 1942.
	HEDWIG HETEMANN GEB. LIVED HERE. MARKUS JG. DEPORTED 1866 1942 THERESIENSTADT MURDERED 02/23/1943	Hetemann, Hedwig	Teichgasse 6 (map)	0Oct 2, 2015	Coming from the Jewish merchant family Markus, Hedwig married Franz Hetemann in the spring of 1900. In Teichgasse 6 they ran a shop that not only sold textiles but also decorative items, artificial flowers , stationery, dolls and toys . The family lived above the shop, which was considered the last Jewish-run shop in Weimar and was demolished by the SS on November 10, 1938 and the shop window was smashed. In September 1942, she and most of the remaining Jews were deported to Theresienstadt. In the euphemistic "Old Ghetto" mentioned concentration camps ruled malnutrition and misery . Bugs and the lack of washing facilities led to epidemics . Hedwig Hetemann died on February 23, 1943.
	BERTHA KAHN JG WORKED HERE . 1884 DEAD 1941	Kahn, Bertha	Wielandstrasse 2 (map)	0May 7, 2008	In the 1880s Bertha, Martha and Selma were born in Wiesbaden as children of Tobias Kahn and his wife Frieda, née Strauss, and grew up with their siblings Lina and Julius. In Weimar, two maternal aunts Rosa and Jeanette Strauss founded a business. Aunt Rosa married Moritz Marchand, who co-founded the Israeli religious association in Weimar in 1903. The Marchands ran the business for many years and finally handed it over to the Kahn sisters. You were forced to give up the shoe shop in 1938. Berta Kahn died at home in Weimar in the spring of 1941 at the age of 56. She was given a grave in the Jewish cemetery in Erfurt and was buried there.
	MARTHA KAHN JG WORKED HERE . DEPORTED 1885 1942 GHETTO BELZYCE MURDERED	Kahn, Martha	Wielandstrasse 2 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Martha and Selma have to leave their home on May 10, 1942. They are taken to the ghettos and camps of the Nazi killing machine with hundreds of other Thuringian Jews. Martha's traces are lost after her arrival in the Belzyce ghetto in the Lublin district.
	SELMA KAHN JG WORKED HERE . DEPORTED 1881 1942 GHETTO BELZYCE MURDERED	Kahn, Selma	Wielandstrasse 2 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Little is known about the death and life of the three sisters. Selma's last path took her to Auschwitz on September 8, 1942. Her aunt Rosa Marchand, aged 84, was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942 and died there on April 20, 1943.
	RICHARD KOHLMANN JG LIVED HERE . ARRIVED 1877 MURDERED IN BUCHENWALD in 1936	Kohlmann, Richard	Carl-von-Ossietzky-Strasse 18 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Richard Kohlmann was born on August 3, 1877 in Lossa, Saxony. In 1936, living in Weimar, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the Bad Sulza concentration camp . He came to Buchenwald on July 31, 1937 via the Lichtenburg concentration camp. He was arrested because he was in opposition to the regime . Of all the concentration camps, Buchenwald had the highest death rate in the years of construction, 1937–1939 . At the age of sixty, Kohlmann died of pneumonia on August 22, 1937 , making him the first Weimar native to die in Buchenwald concentration camp.
	MARTHA KREISS JG LIVED HERE . 1874 BEFORE DEPORTATION ESCAPE TO DEATH 01/14/1944	Circle, Martha	Hummelstrasse 3 (map)	0Nov 7, 2013	As a Goetzel born in Neuwied am Rhein , she came from a Jewish family. Married to the Weimar school and poor doctor Dr. Theodor Kreiß she had a son "Bubi". They lived together at Hummelstrasse 5. Her husband died in February 1940. At the end of April 1939, the “ Law on Tenancy with Jews ” was passed across the Reich . Since from 1940 "non-Aryans" were no longer allowed to rent "Aryans", many were relocated to so-called Jewish houses . Jenny Fleischer-Alts' villa became one of Weimar's “Jewish houses”. With Käthe Friedländer and Martha Kreiß, the Gestapo relocated old, single people to Belvederer Allee 6, and cellist Eduard Rosé also moved in in mid-December 1941. After the death of Jenny Fleischer-Alt and the Gàls, the remaining residents had to leave the house. Käthe Friedländer was deported to Belzyce on May 10th, Martha Kreiß moved to Hummelstrasse 3, Eduard Rosé had to move to the "Judenhaus" at Brühl. The Neuschild family, friends of the Kreißens, lived at Hegelstrasse 5, right next door, and from 1942 onwards Eva Mühlbächer, daughter of the Neuschilds, took Martha Kreiß to a potty of food every evening. She put herself and her family in great danger: Those who "showed friendly relations with Jews in public" were threatened with three months of " protective custody ". Anyone who gave them food risked being sent to a concentration camp.
	GUSTAV LEWIN JG LIVED HERE . 1869 HUMILIATED / DISRIGIDED ESCAPE TO DEATH October 17, 1938	Lewin, Gustav	Steubenstrasse 19 (map)	0Oct 2, 2015	In 1885, Gustav Lewin began studying at the music academy in his hometown of Berlin at the age of 16 . In May 1898 he married the singer and daughter of the Weimar chamber musician Friedrich Wilhelm Haupt Hedwig Haupt. The educated middle class Weimar became a home for him. In 1901 the multi-talented Lewin was brought to the Grand Ducal Music School by the founder and director of the Weimar Orchestra School Carl Müllerhartung. After 32 years, he lost his job at the Weimar Academy of Music in July 1933 as a “non-Aryan” . Gustav Lewin died on October 17, 1938 after refusing to eat .
	KURT NEHRLING JG WORKED HERE . ARRESTED IN 1899, MURDERED IN DACHAU, 1943	Nehrling, Kurt	Eckenerstraße 1 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Kurt Nehrling was a founding member of the Nehrling-Eberling resistance group during the Nazi era around 1933 .
	LUCY ORTLEPP JG LIVED HERE . 1883 DEPORTED 1943 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 08/30/1943	Ortlepp, Lucy	Ratstannenweg 21 (map)	28 Jul 2013	Lucy Ortlepp was born as Lucy Bock on February 2, 1883 in Neubrandenburg / Mecklenburg. She lived in Weimar at Ratstannenweg 21.
	HERE LIVED ALBERT ORTWEILER JG. IN 1855 ARRESTED IN 1938 BUCHENWALD DEAD IN 1938 OF CONSEQUENCES	Ortweiler, Albert	Bruehl 6 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Albert Ortweiler was born on February 13, 1855 in Walldorf (Meiningen) and moved to Weimar 30 years later to build up a business as a merchant. There he bought the house at Brühl 6 and ran a leather shop there. Albert Ortweiler was probably arrested by the Gestapo in 1938 as part of the November pogroms - at the age of 83. He probably died as a result of imprisonment in December 1938.
	HERE LIVED LINA ORTWEILER GEB. LEDERMANN JG. 1866 DEPORTED 1942 DEAD IN THERESIENSTADT, 1943	Ortweiler, Lina	Bruehl 6 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Albert Ortweiler's wife Lina, born in Bauerbach , near Meiningen , on November 13, 1866 , was born Ledermann in 1943 and never returned to Theresienstadt. She died there on July 23, 1943. In February 1938, her son Joachim Ortweiler managed to travel to the USA to see his uncle. He later became a John Appel Professor at the University of Michigan .
	HERE LIVED EDWARD ROSÉ GEB. ROSENBLUM JG. 1859 DEPORTED 20.9.1942 THERESIENSTADT DEAD 24.1.1943	Rosé, Eduard	Marienstraße 16 (map)	May 23, 2007	Eduard Rosé, b. on March 29, 1859, in Jassy and died on January 24, 1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, today Terezin, was a musician , music teacher and in 1883 a co-founder of the world-famous Rosé Quartet after 1900 .
	ERNST ROSÉ JG LIVED HERE . 1900 ESCAPE 1939 USA	Rosé, Ernst	Marienstraße 16 (map)		Son of Eduard Rosé , brother of Wolfgang Rosé
	WOLFGANG ROSÉ JG LIVED HERE . 1902 ESCAPE 1941 USA	Rosé, Ernst	Marienstraße 16 (map)		Son of Eduard Rosé , brother of Ernst Rosé
	HERE LIVED ROSA SCHMIDT GEB. GRILL FREIMANN JG. DEPORTED IN 1882, MURDERED IN AUSCHWITZ, 1944	Schmidt, Rosa	Brennerstraße 42 (map)	0May 7, 2008	Rosa Schmidt was born on March 3, 1882 as a grill freeman in Zolkiew (ukr. Zhovkva), Galicia . She lived in Weimar at Brennerstrasse 42 before she was deported to the extermination camp in Auschwitz in 1942.
	HERE LIVED JOHANNA STRAUBING GEB. HETEMANN JG. DEPORTED IN 1886, 1942 MURDERED BELZYCE	Straubing, Johanna	Teichgasse 6 (map)	0Oct 2, 2015	Johanna Straubing was the daughter of Hedwig Hetemann geb. on May 2nd, 1886 in Halle ad Saale , Province of Saxony and resident in Weimar. She was deported from Weimar to the Belzyce ghetto on May 10, 1942.
	HERE LIVED ELSE FROM VELDEN GEB. SCHADOW JG. 1863 HUMILIATED / DISRUSTED DEAD March 12, 1942	Velden, Else von den	Freiherr-vom-Stein-Allee 10 (map)	0Oct 2, 2015	Else Schadow was born in Berlin on October 31, 1863. Born on December 24th in Frankfurt / Main , Adolf von den Velden married Else Schadow on September 4th, 1886 in Berlin. Together they had four children, daughter Esther and three sons. The sons were named Ulrich, Heinrich and Friedrich. In 1892 the family settled in Weimar. Three years later, Adolf von den Velden acquired the three-storey villa at Carl-Alexander-Allee 10 (today Freiherr von Stein Allee). He died on July 4, 1932, and his three sons had also died young, so Else inherited the house and lived alone on the first floor. The ground floor and the second floor were rented. From September 1939 Else's property was subject to a "security order". She was also no longer allowed to freely dispose of her house. Towards the end of 1941 and beginning of 1942, the sisters Martha and Selma Kahn, who were also persecuted because of their Jewish origins, and their aunt Rosa Marchand were forcibly detained by the Gestapo in Else von den Velden and Esther Abel's apartment at Carl-Alexander-Straße 10 Allocated room with kitchen use. Else von den Velden died on March 12, 1942 from cancer.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steffi von dem Fange in: Stolpersteingeschichten Weimar p. 114 ff. Else von den Velden and Esther Abel ; Editor: Ulrich Völkel at Eckhaus Verlag, Weimar 2016; ISBN 978-3-945294-09-3
2. ^ Günter Appel in the memorial book of the Federal Archives
3. ↑ Jakob Appel in the memorial book of the Federal Archives
4. ^ Susanna Appel in the memorial book of the Federal Archives
5. ^ Jenny Fleischer-Alt in the memorial book of the Federal Archives
6. ^ Jacoby 'Sche Anstalt at Alemannia-Judaica.de
7. ↑ Elise Frank in the memorial book of the Federal Archives
8. ↑ Edith Gál in the memorial book of the Federal Archives
9. ^ Stolpersteine ​​in Weimar - panels of an exhibition
10. ^ Ilka Gál in persecution under National Socialism - stumbling blocks in Weimar - panels of an exhibition
11. ^ Wally Goldschmidt in the deportation lists from May 10, 1942 to Belzyce
12. ↑ Steffi von dem Fange in: Stolpersteingeschichten Weimar p. 32 ff. Hedwig Hetemann and Johanna Straubing ; Editor: Ulrich Völkel at Eckhaus Verlag, Weimar 2016; ISBN 978-3-945294-09-3
13. ↑ ^{a b c} Steffi von dem Fange in: Stolpersteingeschichten Weimar p. 90 ff. Bertha, Selma and Martha Kahn ; Editor: Ulrich Völkel at Eckhaus Verlag, Weimar 2016; ISBN 978-3-945294-09-3
14. ↑ Steffi von dem Fange in: Stolpersteingeschichten Weimar pp. 94 ff. Richard Kohlmann ; Editor: Ulrich Völkel at Eckhaus Verlag, Weimar 2016; ISBN 978-3-945294-09-3
15. ↑ Steffi von dem Fange in: Stolpersteingeschichten Weimar p. 46 ff. Martha Kreiß ; Editor: Ulrich Völkel at Eckhaus Verlag, Weimar 2016; ISBN 978-3-945294-09-3
16. ↑ Steffi von dem Fange in: Stolpersteingeschichten Weimar p. 52 families Appel and Ortweiler ; Editor: Ulrich Völkel at Eckhaus Verlag, Weimar 2016; ISBN 978-3-945294-09-3
17. ↑ Steffi von dem Fange in: Stolpersteingeschichten Weimar p. 41 ff. Jenny Fleischer-Alt, Ilka and Edith Gál ; Editor: Ulrich Völkel at Eckhaus Verlag, Weimar 2016; ISBN 978-3-945294-09-3
18. ↑ Steffi von dem Fange in: Stolpersteingeschichten Weimar p. 48 ff. Martha Kreiß ; Editor: Ulrich Völkel at Eckhaus Verlag, Weimar 2016; ISBN 978-3-945294-09-3
19. ↑ Steffi von dem Fange in: Stolpersteingeschichten Weimar p. 82 ff. Gustav Lewin ; Editor: Ulrich Völkel at Eckhaus Verlag, Weimar 2016; ISBN 978-3-945294-09-3
20. ↑ Lucy Ortlepp in the memorial book of the Federal Archives
21. ↑ Albert Ortweiler in the memorial book of the Federal Archives
22. ↑ Lina Ortweiler in the memorial book of the Federal Archives
23. ^ Wolfram Huschke in: Weimar: Lexikon zur Stadtgeschichte p. 372 Rosé, Eduard ; Editors: Gitta Günther, Wolfram Huschke and Walter Steiner at Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachhaben, Weimar 1998; ISBN 3-7400-0807-5
24. ↑ Rosa Schmidt in the memorial book of the Federal Archives
25. ↑ Photo caption, photo: SKP; in: Rathauskurier, the official gazette of the city of Weimar, No. 17 of October 10, 2015, 26th year, p. 8120
26. ^ Johanna Straubing in the memorial book of the Federal Archives
27. ↑ Steffi von dem Fange in: Stolpersteingeschichten Weimar p. 114 ff. Else von den Velden and Esther Abel ; Editor: Ulrich Völkel at Eckhaus Verlag, Weimar 2016; ISBN 978-3-945294-09-3

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Weimar / Thuringia  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Memorial book - Victims of the persecution of Jews under the National Socialist tyranny in Germany 1933-1945
• ITS (International Tracing Service) archive and documentation center on Nazi persecution and liberated survivors
• Persecution under National Socialism - stumbling blocks in Weimar - panels of an exhibition as PDF download (2.63 MB)
• Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation
• Lagerarbeitsgemeinschaft Buchenwald-Dora eV
• Weimar under National Socialism - A city map
• Stumbling blocks in Weimar on GenWiki
• Statistics of the Holocaust
• stolpersteine.eu