Stumbling stone laying on 10 September 2014

Confectioner Bernhard Stieglitz (born 1910) and shop assistant Jette Tamler (born 1902) worked here in the former Schocken department stores'.
Bernhard Stieglitz was deported to Poland in August 1939 after lengthy stays in the Chemnitz mental hospital and the Zschadrass state hospital, where he was later murdered. Jette Tamler was deported to the Belzyce ghetto near Lublin on 10 May 1942. When the ghetto was cleared by the SS in October 1942, around 5,300 people were murdered, including Jette Tamler.

Sponsor: Friends of the Chemnitz State Museum of Archaeology.

Dentist and art lover Dr Kurt Lichtenstein (born 1884), who lived here until the end of 1935, moved to Schönau-Teplitz (CSR) in 1936. During the occupation of the border regions, he fled to Prague in October 1938, where he took his own life in the same month, according to his own account "out of solidarity with his arrested wife". Elsa Lichtenstein, who herself was of non-Jewish origin and continued to live in Saxony, had supported her husband financially "without authorisation".

Godparents: Prof Dr Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum and his wife.

The factory owner Walther Sachs (born 1872) fled to Holland with his wife Gertrud (born Gertrud Bernstein in 1872) in 1933. Internment in Westerbork was followed by the couple's deportation to Bergen-Belsen in 1944. Walther Sachs was murdered on 15 April 1944. Gertrud Sachs died on 2 May 1945 in Tröbitz.

Sponsor: Udo Mayer.

The merchant Ludwig Scharlach (born 1899), his wife Gerda (born 1906 as Gerda Sachs) and their daughter Erika (born 1928) also suffered the fate of internment in Westerbork after their escape to Holland in 1933, followed by deportation in 1943. They were all murdered in Sobibor.

Godparents: Volker Dittrich, Andreas Kleppel, Alexander Dostmann.

The lawyer Dr Fritz Gabriel Cohn (born 1885) was taken into "protective custody" in Buchenwald in 1938. Together with his wife Flora Margot (born Flora Margot Bermann in 1892), he managed to escape to Norway in 1939, where they were both arrested on 26 October 1942 and subsequently deported to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

Godparents: Prof. Dr Wolfgang Emmerich, Dr Renate Moser.

The factory owner Dr Felix Max Frank (born 1891), his wife Elisabeth (born 1898 as Elisabeth Mosenthal) and their daughter Hildegard (born 1922) lost their lives in the shipwreck on 18 November 1939 when the Dutch passenger steamer "Simon Bolivar" ran into a German minefield off the coast of England.

Sponsors: Förderverein Industriemuseum Chemnitz e.V., Achim Dresler, Gisela Strobel, Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium Chemnitz.

The merchant Leib Kleinberg (born 1902) was deported to Poland together with his three brothers during the "Polenaktion" at the end of October 1938. After his temporary return in 1939, he was taken into "protective custody" in the remand prison on Kaßberg, where he took his own life on 14 April 1940.

Sponsor: Dr Jürgen Nitsche.

The former lawyer Hans Mire (born 1908) was also in "protective custody" here and ended his life on 17 May 1940. The "fear of being placed in a concentration camp" had prompted him to take this step. His urn was transferred to Prague on 17 June 1940.

Godmother: Angela Zimmerling.

Rudolf Harlass (born in 1893), a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) who actively engaged in political resistance, lived here. After being imprisoned in Sachsenburg in 1933, he was sent to Chemnitz police prison in 1944 in connection with "Aktion Gitter", where he was driven to his death on 6 December 1944.

Sponsor: Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime / League of Anti-Fascists, Chemnitz City Association

The merchant Oskar Simon (born 1880) was deported to the Belzyce ghetto near Lublin on 10 May 1942 following "protective custody" in Buchenwald. He was murdered in Chodel on 31 July 1942. His sister Käthe Simon (born 1883), who had last worked as a community helper, was murdered in Auschwitz, where she had been deported on 2 March 1943. His younger sister, the former office clerk Margarete Simon (born 1890), also suffered the same fate: deported and murdered in Belzyce on 10 May 1942.

Godparents: Michael Kühn, Dr Frank Straßberger.

Josef Tittmann (born 1906) fled from Chemnitz to Poland, where he had once been born, in 1937. Together with his wife Herta (born Herta Jaschek in 1914) and their daughter Rachella, who was born in 1938, he decided to flee to his death after the Krakow ghetto was dissolved on 12 November 1944.

Relatives of the Tittmann family from Israel sponsor two Stumbling Stones. Further sponsor: Veronika Brandt

Office worker Hulda Müller (born Kutzschbauch in 1897) was taken into "preventive detention" after serving a one-year sentence in Leipzig-Kleinmeusdorf women's prison and died in Ravensbrück concentration camp after 6 June 1944.

Sponsor: Dr Kurt Kutzschbauch.

Franz Molch (born 1871) was a victim of the "euthanasia" crimes of the National Socialist regime. After being forcibly committed to the Chemnitz mental hospital and subsequently "transferred" to Zschadrass, he was murdered in Pirna-Sonnenstein on 12 August 1941 as part of "Aktion T4".

Sponsor: Jörg Waehner.