Stumbling stone laying on 30 May 2017

The Jewish Zuer family lived in this place. After the death of her husband David Zuer in 1929, Johanna Zuer (née Brinitzer, 1886) moved to Gera with her son Wolfgang Zuer (born 1921) in 1933. Both were deported from there to the Belzyce ghetto on 10 May 1942 and murdered.

Godparents: Dieter Nendel (Gera), pupil and teacher at the Georgius Agricola Grammar School in Chemnitz

Lilly Salgo (born 1918, married name Katz) lived here with her parents before moving to Berlin at the age of 18. She managed to escape to the USA, where she met her future husband and started a family. She died in Florida in 2013. Two Stolpersteine already commemorate her parents Ludwig and Laura Salgo, who were murdered in the Belzyce ghetto after being deported in 1942.

Sponsor: Dr Detlef Thierig

Mendel Schmul Muschinsky (born 1889) and his wife Louisa Rochla Muschinsky (née Schneider, 1889) were deported to Poland on 28 October 1938 and from then on lived in the Łomża ghetto. After it was dissolved, they were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where they were murdered on 20 January 1943. Their sons had managed to reach safety in time.

Godfather: Peter Muschinsky (relative from Denmark)

The family of pharmacist Dr Kurt Magen (born 1882), then owner of the Chemnitz Adler pharmacy, who once lived here, moved to Dresden in 1937 after they were no longer able to maintain the business. Daughter Anneliese Magen (born 1920) managed to flee to England in 1938. Dr Kurt Magen was arrested in January 1942 and died in Dresden police prison on 23 May 1942 under circumstances that have never been clarified. His son Claus Magen (born 1923) failed to escape to Switzerland in 1942. He was deported to Auschwitz and murdered on 16 August 1942. His wife Erna (née Hinzelmann, 1898) and daughter Stephanie (born 1925) were also deported to Auschwitz in 1943. They committed suicide there on 3 March 1943.

Godparents: Beate Legler, Johanna Güther, Doreen Vogt (Drehbach), Eva-Maria Vogt (Drehbach), Martina Lange (Hohenstein-Ernstthal)

The Häusler family of five was deported from their home in Clausstraße in Chemnitz to Bentschen (Zbaszyn) in Poland in 1938 as part of the so-called "Polenaktion". Chaim Häusler (born 1891), his wife Frieda Ella Häusler (née Weissbach, 1899), their children Toni Jetti Häusler (born 1923), Isidor Häusler (born 1924) and Siegfried Häusler (born 1929) were murdered in occupied Poland.

Godmother: Prof Christine Krüger (Berlin)

Alfred Richard Johst (born 1903), a construction worker and KPD member active in the communist resistance, was "transferred" from detention in the Hoheneck prison to the Waldheim sanatorium and nursing home in 1933, where he died on 29 January 1935.

Godmother: Dr Elke Scherstjanoi (Berlin)

The Weidberg family lived here until 1939: Heinrich Weidberg (born 1891), his wife Ida Weidberg (née Grünfeld, 1892) and their daughters Alice (born 1925) and Edith (born 1920).

Heinrich Weidberg fled to Vienna in 1939. Daughter Edith managed to escape to England. After Ida Weidberg and her daughter Alice tried in vain several times to flee via Holland, they finally followed their husband and father to Vienna in 1940. All three were deported to Kovno (Lithuania) in 1941 and killed in the IX Fort on 29 November 1941.

Godparents: Katharina Weyandt, Gabriele and Eckart Roßberg, Michael Lauer (Dillingen)

As a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious community, Robert Reiher (born 1902) from Chemnitz was imprisoned several times in various prisons. He was last sent to Dachau in 1942 and was murdered there on 25 September 1942.

Sponsor: Marcel Plönzke

Gerhard Petzold (born 1924) was admitted to the Altendorf State Educational Centre at the age of 7 due to health problems. When the nursing ward was dissolved, 300 sick people were transferred to the Arnsdorf state institution in collective transports - including Gerhard Petzold on 31 May 1940. On 30 July 1940, he was sent to the Pirna-Sonnenstein "euthanasia" institution as part of "Aktion T4" and was killed there.

Godparents: Hartung family (relatives)