Stumbling stone laying on 30 September 2015

Ernst Heilmann (born 1881), a native Berliner, took over the management of the Social Democratic Volksstimme in Chemnitz from 1909 to 1915, based in the printing and publishing building at Dresdner Straße 38. He had already joined the SPD at the age of 17 and later represented it in the Prussian state parliament and in the Reichstag from 1928 to 1933. He was arrested in June 1933 and murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp on 3 April 1940 after spending time in several concentration camps and suffering severe abuse.

Henriette Frensdorf (born 1876) worked as a head nurse at the Chemnitz mental hospital until October 1930. In February 1943, she initially moved to the Jewish old people's and infirmary home on Antonplatz before being deported to Theresienstadt with the last residents of the home a few weeks later and murdered in Auschwitz in May 1944.

Richard Bretschneider (born 1899) was admitted to the Chemnitz mental hospital as a patient in 1933. In 1937, he was transferred to the Zschadrass state asylum. He was murdered in the Pirna-Sonnenstein "euthanasia" institution as part of "Aktion T4" on 19 July 1940.

Godparents: Prof Dr Teresa Pinheiro, Daniel Steinbach

Eugen Simon (born in 1877) had to move from Münchner Straße to one of the Jewish houses in Chemnitz in 1939. Like his three siblings, in whose memory Stolpersteine had already been laid the previous year at Bernsdorfer Straße 1 / corner of Ritterstraße, he suffered the fate of deportation and murder. On 27 February 1943, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he died on 17 April.

Godmother: Heidrun Schreiter

Dr Else Wolff (born 1891), a municipal civil servant, worked as a municipal school doctor in Chemnitz. She moved from Chemnitz to Leipzig in 1936. On 10 May 1942, she was deported to the Belzyce ghetto as part of a large transport and murdered there.

The merchant and entrepreneur Siegfried Peretz (born 1859) owned the Siegfried Peretz stocking factory located in this building. After his expropriation in 1938 and the years of humiliation that followed, he and his non-Jewish wife Lina (born Lina Aeberlein in 1860) ended their lives on 3 May 1943.

Hedwig Doerzbacher (born Hedwig Kohn in 1883), the widow of Chemnitz hosiery manufacturer Max Doerzbacher, also suffered the fate of deportation to the Belzyce ghetto on 10 May 1942 and subsequent murder. A few years ago, a Stumbling Stone was laid on the site where the house at Ahornstraße 32 once stood, most recently a "Jewish house".

The merchant Alfred Löser Joachimsthal (born 1877) and his wife Elli (born 1885 as Elli Muhr) were among the longest living Jews in Chemnitz. On 10 May 1942, the couple were deported to the Belzyce ghetto near Lublin. When the ghetto was cleared by the SS in October 1942, around 5,300 people were murdered, including Alfred Löser and Elli Joachimsthal.

Alfred Leder (born 1917), son of the Jewish entrepreneur and art collector couple David and Lola Leder and brother of the writer Stephan Hermlin, who died in 1997, lived here in his parents' house. He emigrated to Palestine in 1934 and went to England in 1938. He joined the Royal Air Force in October 1941. As a trainee pilot, he was killed on 7 January 1943 in a collision between two training aircraft in the province of Alberta (Canada).

At the age of twelve, Benjamin Sigler (born 1922) emigrated to England with his parents and joined the Royal Air Force at the age of eighteen. He died on 30 May 1942 during a mission as a pilot when his plane crashed over Cologne.

The widow of the second Chemnitz rabbi, Gerta Mühlfelder (born Gerta Lipmann in 1853), moved from her home at Weststraße 73 to the Jewish retirement home in 1941. On 21 June 1943, the blind and deaf 90-year-old woman was deported to Theresienstadt and died there on 19 July 1943.

Max Moses Löwenstein (born 1871) and his wife Elise (born 1869 as Elise Michaelis) lived in the "Kyffhäuserburg", which was built in 1910. During the November pogrom of 1938, Max Moses Löwenstein was deported to Buchenwald and severely abused there. He died a few months after his return to Chemnitz on 14 July 1939

Gilel Reiter (born 1878) suffered severe abuse during his "protective custody" in Buchenwald in 1938. The father of the family, who was seriously ill with kidney disease, was denied any medical help and died in agony on 18 February 1944 in Chemnitz. His burial in the Jewish cemetery in Altendorf, which was considered illegal, was organised by the family with great difficulty during the winter.

Jacob Ralf Götz (born 1913), who once lived here, belonged to the merchant family that had taken over the former Jewish department stores' of the Böhm brothers. After "protective custody" in 1938, he managed to escape to Holland in 1939. He lived underground in 1942/43 until he was denounced by neighbours and deported to Auschwitz on 19.10.1943. He was murdered there on 31 March 1944.

The Jewish old people's home in Chemnitz was located here. Its director at the time, Marie Doernberger (born Marie Levinger in 1883), came from Berlin, where she lived until 1940. The old people's home was closed in 1943 and all residents and staff were deported to Theresienstadt. In 1944, the widow was sent to Auschwitz, where she was murdered on 14 October 1944.

David Klebe (born 1873), the last chairman of the Chemnitz Jewish Cultural Association, was murdered in Treblinka in 1942. After his involuntary move from his home to one of the city's Jewish houses, the former grain merchant was initially deported to Theresienstadt on 7 September 1942.