Paula Jordan (gallery owner)

Paula Jordan , née Frank (born May 17, 1889 in Steinach an der Saale ; murdered November 25, 1941 in Kaunas ) was the daughter of the Jewish merchant family Lazarus Frank and worked as a nurse before her wedding in the First World War.

Life dates

On December 16, 1921, she married the art dealer Siegfried Fritz Jordan (born July 18, 1889 in Munich , † November 25, 1941 in Kaunas / Lithuania) in Kissingen . Their son Peter was born in Munich on October 5, 1923. From 1925 they lived in Munich in the Herzogpark, Mauerkircherstraße 13.

Both had run their gallery on Prinzregentenstrasse for more than 30 years before they were forced to sell it. They were deported from Munich in 1940 and killed in the Kaunas concentration camp . Son Peter Jordan was able to flee to London with a relative in May 1939, where he still lives today.

The research of the students of the Luisengymnasium in Munich-Bogenhausen led to the laying of stumbling blocks in 2004. The action was hotly debated. Since the city administration did not approve any stumbling blocks, they were removed from the pavement two months later and transported to the Jewish cemetery. The artist Gunter Demnig can still get upset about it today and his son Peter is disappointed and formulates that this would be the same as a second deportation.

Web links

• How everything began in the Luisengymnasium
• Results of the district research
• Book project: suddenly they were gone.
• The Tagesspiegel article from September 19, 2004 shows how the city of Munich deals with the stumbling blocks that have not been approved but have been laid
• Citizens as perpetrators? Reiner Bernstein's supporter of the behavior of the Munich city council
• Stumbling blocks on the blog

See also

• What the topic of stumbling blocks can trigger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorial Book. Retrieved August 9, 2019 . 
2. ^ Stumbling block ban divides Munich. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .