Stumbling Stone Zschopauer Straße 55

This small, brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:

* Julius Nussberg, born 1907, fled 1936 Latvia, arrested 1941, Riga, Central Prison, dead 16 January 1944.

Julius Nussberg was the oldest son of merchant parents, Osias/Oskar and Kreindla Nussberg. The year after his birth in Düsseldorf, the family moved to Chemnitz and added more children to the household (Julius’s sister Tamar submitted testimony to Yad Vashem). The family purchased the house at Zschopauer Strasse 55 after World War I. Father Oskar Nussberg ran their stocking factory with 18 employees from a building behind the house. Oskar became a German citizen in 1923. After the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) came to power, the family’s citizenship was revoked. Julius’s parents emigrated to Palestine in 1935. Oskar died in Tel Aviv a few months later.

In 1936, Julius Nussberg emigrated to Latvia, and he wrote an article describing life there. It was published in the Jüdischen Zeitung für Mittelsachsen (Jewish Newspaper for Central Saxony).

According to another relative’s testimony, Julius was a musician. At some time, he and Sonja Dannenhirsch married, but they had no children. (Another source -- MyHeritage.com -- states that the couple divorced.) The testimony states that Sonja was murdered in Riga in 1943.

Before that, Julius was arrested in 1941. He was murdered in the Central Prison in Riga in January 1944.

"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: Dr. Bernd Gross
• Chemnitz.de: Stolpersteinverlegung am 30. Augustus 2018
• Sachsen Fernsehen: Neue Stolpersteine für Chemnitz
• Stolpersteine.eu