Laying of the Stumbling Stones on 12 June 2010
14 more Stolpersteine were laid at ten locations in Chemnitz on 12 June 2010:
Gerhard-Hauptmann-Platz 13 | Daniel Flieg (1880-1935), humiliated and disenfranchised by the Nazis, driven to his death on 9 July 1935 |
Hübschmannstraße 26 | Hans Hartmann (1888-1941) and Regina Hartmann (1892-1942): Hans Hartmann was arrested in 1940, deported to Sachsenhausen, Neuengamme and Dachau and died on 5 February 1941. Regina Hartmann, née Flieg, was deported on 14 December 1942 and murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp. |
Ahornstraße 32 | Ida Imgrund, née Goldner (1884-1942): Seriously ill, she was denied an operation to help, so Ida Imgrund died on 17 April 1942. |
Weststraße 24 | Ludwig Salgo (1889-1942) and his wife Laura Salgo, née Friedrich (1895-1942): Deported on 13 July 1942 and murdered in the Belzyce ghetto |
Lutherstrasse 5 | Hermann Eduard Gleicher (1878-1939), arrested on 1 September 1939, deported to Buchenwald concentration camp, died here on 1 June 1940 |
Further Street 32 | Alfred Pepperl (1907-1944): Alfred Pepperl was imprisoned in Zwickau prison, joined the notorious 999 penal division in 1943 and died in September 1944 as a soldier in the Aegean Sea during the Second World War. |
Louis-Hermsdorf-Straße, (today: Brückenstraße/corner of Theaterstraße) | The Schalit family, father Meer Schalit (1884-1940) and daughters Hanni Abraham née Schalit (1914-???) and Sina Maas née Schalit (1920-1943). Meer Schalit was arrested in 1940 and deported to Sachsenhausen, where he died on 6 March 1940. Daughter Hanni went from Chemnitz to Breslau in 1939 and was deported from there to Auschwitz and murdered. Daughter Sina was deported to Auschwitz on 1 March 1943 and murdered. |
Gravelottenstraße 32, (today Franz-Mehring-Straße 32) | Herbert Berger (1894-1943): Herbert Berger fled from the German fascists to Belgium in 1939, was arrested in Drancy in 1940 and deported to Majdanek and murdered on 31 December 1943. |
Haydnstraße 36 | Hildegard Benda, née Boas (1896-1942): Hildegard Benda fled from the German fascists to Prague in 1939, was deported to Theresienstadt on 12 February 1942 and murdered in Izbica on 11 March 1942. |
Heinrich-Heine-Straße 5 | Luise Gerschler (1914-1940): Luise Gerschler lived in the Magdalenenstift in Chemnitz and from 1938 to 1940 in the infamous "euthanasia" institution in Prina-Sonnenstein, where she was murdered on 18 October 1940. |