Stumbling Stones Luisenstraße 3

These small, brass memorial plaques (stolpersteine, struikelstenen, stumbling stones) commemorate the families of two brothers, Fritz and Erwin Mayer:

* Fritz Mayer, born 1889, deported 1941, Lodz / Litzmannstadt, murdered 14 July 1942.
* Emma Mayer née Marx born 1895, deported 1941 Lodz / Litzmannstadt, murdered.
* Erwin Mayer, born 1893, deported 1941 Lodz / Litzmannstadt, murdered 3 December 1942.
* Henriette Marx née Neumann, born 1863, deported 1941, Lodz / Litzmannstadt, murdered 26 April 1942.
* Gertrude Mayer née Blumenfeld, born 1906, deported 1941, murdered in Lodz / Litzmannstadt.
* Lieselotte Mayer, born 1921, involuntarily relocated 1936 Ludwigshafen, fled to the USA.
* Beatrice Mayer, born 1929, deported 1941, murdered in Lodz / Litzmannstadt.
* Doris Mayer, born 1929, deported 1941, murdered in Lodz / Litzmannstadt.
* Ellen Gisela Mayer, born 1934, deported 1941 Lodz / Litzmannstadt, murdered 20 October 1941.

Two brothers, Fritz Mayer and Erwin Mayer, lived with their families at this address. They had inherited from their father a men’s clothing store on Lutherplatz moved it to the house on Luisenstraße 3. They all moved to Frankfurt in 1936-1937.

Fritz Mayer and Emma Marx married and had 2 daughters, Lieselotte and Doris. Emma’s mother, Henriette Marx, lived with them. In May 1936, Lieselotte, age 15, travelled alone to Ludwigshafen and fled to the US from there. In July, Fritz, Emma, Henriette and Doris moved to Frankfurt. In October 1941, they were deported from Frankfurt to the Lodz ghetto. Henriette was age 79 and Doris was 12.

Erwin Mayer and Gertrude Blumenfeld married and also had 2 daughters – Beatrice and Ellen Gisella. They went to Frankfurt on 20 March 1937. All four were deported to Lodz in 1941 and murdered in 1942. Circumstances of the deaths of Gertrude and the 2 daughters are unknown.

Stolpersteine for Fritz and Erwin's brother Moritz Mayer and his wife Irma are at Andreasstraße 23 in Worms.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Bonzei123
• Stolpersteine in Worms
• Worms Jews: Erwin Mayer
• Worms Jews: FritzMayer
• Geni.com
• Stolpersteine.eu