Stumbling Stones in Chemnitz
Samuel, Frieda, Rosa, Rachela and Manfred Nussberg
Samuel Nussberg
Born: 10 February 1895
Died: after 17.02.1941
Godmother: Katja Knop
Frieda Nussberg, née Avramovici
Born: 08.03.1896
Died: after 17.02.1941
Godfather: Markus Eidam
Rosa Nussberg
Born: 06.03.1936
Died: after 17/02/1941
Godparents: Konrad and Beatrice Reinhold
Rachela Nussberg
Born: 11.04.1927
Died: after 17.02.1941
Godfather: Frank Luge
Manfred Nussberg
Born: 07.08.1931
Died: after 17/02/1941
Godparents: Dr Gunnar Müller and Simone Neddermann
Installation location:
Barbarossastrasse 55Stumbling stone laying on:
5 December 2019
Life path
The five-member Nussberg family was one of the Polish-Jewish families from Chemnitz who were arrested as part of the "Poland Action" (1938) and deported to their supposed homeland, where they were murdered in one of the numerous Nazi ghettos or extermination camps after 1941. The merchant Samuel Aron Nussberg, who came from the town of Kolomea (Austrian-Poland), had lived in Chemnitz since November 1922.
After the end of the Habsburg Monarchy, he became a Polish citizen. In July 1923, he opened a hosiery shop in the Reitbahn district. In July 1924, he married Frieda Avramovici, whose parents had lived in Romania until 1891. The couple had three children: Rachela, Manfred Moses and Fany Rosa. Twelve-year-old Benno Berger, an orphaned nephew from Leipzig, joined their children in the spring of 1935. The family moved several times before settling in the house at 55 Barbarossastrasse on Kaßberg in the mid-1930s.
On 28 October 1938, the Nussberg family was taken to Poland by the Reichsbahn, where they found a place to live in Krakow. Samuel Nussberg had authorised his brother-in-law Avram Avramovici to continue the tiny business. The business premises were therefore unsealed by the authorities on 5 December 1938. Nevertheless, by order of the IHK, it was to be "liquidated" by 15 February 1939. The liquidation was delayed due to considerable outstanding debts. A trustee had already been appointed when Samuel Nussberg was allowed to temporarily "return" to Chemnitz on 17 April 1939. He sold the remainder of his stock of goods and paid the tax debts incurred. He then had the S. Nussberg company deleted from the commercial register.
On 19 May 1939, the father of the family returned to Krakow. On 17 February 1941, the couple and their children were deported to the Leibitsch camp (today Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship). It is not known where their foster son, who was also one of the Jews deported on 28 October 1938, lived from then on.
Stumbling Stones in Chemnitz
It is a project against forgetting: stumbling stones have been laid in Chemnitz every year since 2007.
Embedded in the pavement, the memorial stones commemorate the tragic fates of fellow citizens who were persecuted, deported, murdered or driven to their deaths during the National Socialist regime.
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