Stumbling Stone Moritzstraße 20

These brass memorial plaques (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:
*HERMANN FÜRSTENHEIM (born 1877, murdered 10 November 1938, Chemnitz)

Hermann Fürstenheim, born on December 27, 1877, in Bahn (Pomerania), worked here. He moved to Chemnitz and became general manager of the Tietz department store. The store was closed by the Nazis because the owner family, the Tietzes, and their senior staff were Jewish. On the night of November 9-10, 1938, four SA and SS men broke into the villa and murdered him. The body was burned and the ashes were then delivered to his wife Ida.

These Stolpersteine lies here for Jewish war victim, murdered in World War II.

"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 sidewalk in front of a residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the name of the victim, date of birth and the fate of these people. 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."

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Treeem