Stumbling Stones Sulzbacher Straße 48

Four Stolpersteine / Stumbling Stones on the corner of Sulzbacher Strasse and Waechterstrasse commemorate:
* Siegfried Lörken, born 1885, deported 1942, murdered in Izbica.
* Johanna Lörken née Löwenthal, born 1886, deported 1942, murdered in Izbica.
* Wilhelm Wassermann, born 1873, deported 1942 Auschwitz, murdered 20 May 1944.
* Rosa Wassermann, born 1881, deported 1942 Theresienstadt, murdered 29 December 1942.

Siegfried and Johanna Lörken were deported on 24 March 1942 to Izbica with 424 other Nürnberg residents. None survived the war.

Wilhelm Wassermann and Rosa Ullmann, both from Nürnberg, married. They were both deported on 10 September 1942 from Nürnberg to Theresienstadt with 531 other Nürnberg residents; only 26 survived the war. Rosa Wassermann survived in Theresienstadt 3 months. Wilhelm Wassermann survived there another 17 months, but he was deported again on 18 May 1944 to Auschwitz, where he was murdered 2 days later.

Their son Ernst Wassermann was born in 1904 in Nürnberg and at some point emigrated to the USA, where he died at age 80.

Wilhelm Wassermann’s two sisters -- Ida Fleischmann and Anna Hechinger -- were both murdered in 1941 in Riga. Rosa Wassermann had 3 siblings. One died in 1925, one died in the US in 1949 and the third (Lina Reis) was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 (see her stolperstein at Celtisstraße 3 in Nürnberg).

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."
Wilhelm’s two sisters -- Ida Fleischmann and Anna Hechinger -- were both murdered in 1941 in Riga. Rosa had 3 siblings. One died in 1925, one died in the US in 1949 and the third (Lina Reis) was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.

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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer
• Photos: John Shorack
• Nuremberg’s Victims of Shoah
• Izbicz Ghetto
• Geni.com
• Stolpersteine.eu