Stumbling stone laying on 2 November 2012
16 Stolpersteine were laid at nine locations in Chemnitz on 2 November 2012:
Hoffmannstrasse 52
Karl Goeritz (born 1900) was the youngest son of the textile manufacturer Siegmund Goeritz. He was one of the most important private art collectors in the city of Chemnitz around 1930, but had to flee the city with his family to Holland in 1937. He, his son Frank-Stefan Goeritz (born 1932) and daughter Irene Beatrice Goeritz (born 1938) drowned during the crossing to Chile on 18 November 1939 when the MS Simon Bolivar ran into a minefield off the English coast and capsized. His wife was the only family member to survive.
Copernicus Street 16
Hugo Sussmann (born 1881) was conscripted into forced labour after the liquidation of his company Gebrüder Sussmann AG. The fact that he boarded a tram compartment that was not authorised for Jews was his undoing. He was arrested in Chemnitz in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. He was murdered there on 12 August 1944. His son Julius Sussmann (born 1922) was able to flee to Holland in 1939. However, he was unable to make a new start. He became lonely and committed suicide in Amsterdam on 12 August 1940.
Brückenstraße 14, historical (today: Brückenstraße 6 in front of Sparkasse branch)
Dr Alfred Lachmann (born 1889) was taken into "protective custody" in Buchenwald in 1938 and deported "to the East" on 13 July 1942. He was murdered there by the National Socialists. His wife Helene Lachmann (born 1890) met the same fate. She was deported to the Belzyce ghetto on 10 May 1942 with over 1,000 Jews from central Germany and murdered. Their son Werner Konrad Lachmann (born 1924) had moved to Berlin involuntarily in 1939 and was deported from there to Auschwitz on 29 January 1943 and murdered.
Matthesstraße 15, historical (today: Matthesstraße Konkordiapark, between climbing hall and basketball court)
David Leib Nachmann (born 1882), who came to Chemnitz from Russian Poland in the early 1900s, was deported to Poland in 1938. He was arrested in Chemnitz in 1939, taken to Buchenwald and murdered in the Bernburg "euthanasia" centre on 12 March 1942. There was no sign of life from his daughter Hanni Nachmann (born 1922) after 1938. She was declared dead in 1945.
Zschopauer Street 107
Avram Avramovici (born 1885) from Romania and his wife Alta Basia Avramovici (born 1889) were deported to the Belzyce ghetto in 1942. They tried to escape but were caught and murdered.
Brauhausstraße 30, historical (today: footpath towards Clara-Zetkin-Str. in front of KITA)
Ludwig Kohn (born 1878): He was deported to the CSR as a Czechoslovakian citizen in 1934. As he was very politically active, he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered there on 8 June 1943.
Apollostraße 4, historical (today: footpath from Apollostraße to house number 4)
Dagobert Culp (born 1882): He was arrested in Chemnitz in 1938 for "racial defilement". He was sent to Bautzen prison in 1939. A year later, he was taken to Sachsenhausen and died on 7 February 1940.
Untere Aktienstraße 14
Rosa Brudner (born Rosa Granditz in 1884): She was deported to the Belzyce ghetto on 10 May 1942 and murdered.
Hilbersdorfer Street 66
Anna Neubert (born Anna Hertel in 1885): She was murdered in Pirna-Sonnenstein on 23 October 1940 due to mental illness as part of Aktion T4 (Nazi "euthanasia").