Stumbling Stones Melanchthonplatz 1

Stolpersteine / Stumbling Stones commemorate:

Meta Schwarz, born 1889, murdered 1940, Fürth.
Ludwig Schwarz, born 1877, murdered 1937, Rottendorf.
Joseph Schwarz, born 1921, deported 1943, murdered, Auschwitz.

Meta Schwarz née Stern, her husband Ludwig Schwarz and their sons Joseph and Meier lived at this address. Only Meir survived.

Ludwig Schwarz, a decorated WW1 officer, allegedly died of a stroke in 1937, but it was discovered >50 years later that he had been killed by a gang of Nazis in Rottendorf bei Würzburg

In November 1938, Meir, age 12, watched the synagogue being burned and destroyed on Kristallnacht. The family’s apartment on Melanchthonplatz 1 was also destroyed. The next year he was sent to Jerusalem on a Kindertransport.

Meta Schwarz was murdered in 1940 in the Fürth hospital, where the doctors and nurses refused to give her the needed medication for her kidney disease because she was Jewish.

Joseph was deported on 19 April 1942 from Neuendorf bei Fürstenwalde to Auschwitz, where he was murdered in the summer of 1943.

When Meier Schwarz returned to Nürnberg in 1988, he was distressed to see a gasoline station on the site of the synagogue, with no sign that the synagogue has ever existed. He wrote a book about it and since then has published more about the history of the Jews of Nürnberg

"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: John Shorack
• JewishGen: Nuremberg’s Victims of the Shoah
• Hörstolpersteine: Meta Schwarz
• Meir Schwarz - Porträt eines Nürnberger Juden
• Stolpersteine.eu