Stumbling stone laying on 8 November 2013
To commemorate the victims of the Reichspogromnacht, another Stolperstein was laid in Chemnitz on 8 November 2013 to mark the 75th anniversary:
Reitbahnstraße, in front of Tietz entrance
The stumbling stone commemorates the Jewish merchant Hermann Fürstenheim, who was murdered in the November pogrom of 1938. Hermann Fürstenheim (born 1877), who managed the Chemnitz branch of the Tietz department stores' from 1904, fell victim to an assassination attempt in his villa on the morning of 10 November 1938.
Sponsor: Bernd Ruscher, at the time of the relocation manager of today's cultural institution DasTIETZ