Stumbling stone laying on 25 September 2013

This was the Kupferberg family's last place of residence. Heinrich Kupferberg (born 1882), his wife Frieda Kupferberg (born 1882 as Frieda Stein) and their daughter Ilse-Lotte Kupferberg (born 1926) were 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 the Kupferberg family.

Sponsors: Pupils and teachers of the Dr.-Wilhelm-André-Gymnasium Chemnitz

Ilse-Lotte Kupferberg attended school here.

Sponsor: Andreas Liese

Leopold Steinhardt (born 1883), owner of a tricot factory in Chemnitz, and his son Hans Adolf Steinhardt (born 1923) 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. His wife Erna Steinhardt and daughter Lily Mirjam survived the disaster.

Sponsor: Hans-Joachim Wunderlich

Dr Ernst Cohn (born 1901), dentist, had been an assistant at the dental clinic of the General Local Health Insurance Fund in Chemnitz since January 1932. He was dismissed in March 1933 and emigrated to Palestine. He later returned to Europe.

Sponsor: Enrico Hilbert

Moritz Mecklenburg (born 1880), a businessman, came from Lübeck. He lived in Chemnitz from 1907, where he was co-owner of E. Adler & Co, a metal and machinery wholesaler, until 1932. He emigrated to Shanghai with his wife Elise, née Adler, in 1939. Life there was not easy for the new arrivals, as Miriam Brookfield reported in the art collections in March 2013. Moritz Mecklenburg died in Shanghai on 17 March 1945.

Sponsor: Heidemarie Kugler-Weiemann, Lübeck

Bruno Heidenheim (born 1885) was taken into "protective custody" during the Reich Pogrom Night of 1938 and later sentenced to forced labour. Due to the physically hard labour under unacceptable conditions, he fell fatally ill. He was denied the necessary medical care. The father of the family died on 24.12.1940. His wife and daughter survived and emigrated to Australia after the end of the war.

Godparents: David and Juliette Mendelovits, Australia

Sigismund Nachmann (born 1907), his wife Bajla Ides Nachmann (born 1908 as Bajla Ides Dressler), their children Ingrid Nachmann (born 1931), Joachim Nachmann (born 1934) and Manfred Gerhard Nachmann (born 1934) were deported to Poland during the "Polenaktion" at the end of October 1938. The entire family was murdered in occupied Poland in 1942. Relatives of the victims took over the sponsorship.

Sponsor: Unger family, London

Georg Landgraf (born 1885), publishing director of the social democratic Chemnitzer Volksstimme, was actively involved in politics as a city councillor and trade unionist. After the Volksstimme was banned on 1 March 1933, SA men attempted to occupy the publishing house's offices and printing works on 9 March. Georg Landgraf resisted and refused them entry, whereupon he was murdered by two pistol shots.

Sponsor: SPD sub-district of Chemnitz

Julius Sommerfeld (born 1878), an up-and-coming merchant, owner of a cloth wholesale business and landlord, was taken into "protective custody" in 1939 and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was murdered there on 16 March 1940.

Sponsors: Pupils and teachers of the Georgius Agricola Grammar School in Chemnitz

Ernst Enge (born 1893) was an anti-fascist resistance fighter in Chemnitz. His first imprisonment in June 1933 was followed by two years in the Waldheim prison, and in 1939 another so-called "preventive" imprisonment of six weeks. After his release, he was forced to work in an armaments factory in Chemnitz. From there, he continued to organise the resistance until the Gestapo tracked him down and arrested him on 26 September 1944.

After being severely tortured by the Gestapo at the former police headquarters, he was driven to his death on 17 October 1944.

Sponsor: Dr Stephan Pfalzer

Karla Jäcker (born 1928) was a victim of the child "euthanasia" crimes of the National Socialist regime. She was one of around 500 disabled children murdered in the Leipzig-Dösen children's ward and died on 8 September 1941.

Godmother: Irmgard Teschner