Stumbling Stones Ste. Foy Straße 13

These small brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* Siegmund Schaumburger, born 1888, deported 1941, Riga, murdered.
* Sabine Schaumburger née Bruckmann, born 1895, deported 1941, Riga, murdered.
* Grete Schaumburger, born 1923, deported 1941, Riga, murdered.
* Hans Schaumburger, born 1930, deported 1941, Riga, murdered.

Background
Siegmund Schaumburger, a butcher and cattle dealer, and Sabine Bruckmann married in 1888. He was a soldier in WW1. They lived in Münster, where daughter Grete was born in 1923. Then they moved to Limburg where Siegmund took over the butcher shop of his sister’s husband who had died. Son Hans was born there in 1930. The butcher shop business suffered with the Nazi-supported boycott of Jewish businesses. Siegmund remained in Limburg to care for an ailing sister when in 1935 Sabine and the 2 children went to Krefeld to live in her parents’ house at Inrather Strasse 22. After the sister’s death, Siegmund was jailed briefly (no details were found) and then joined his family in Krefeld. Starting in June 1941, the Inrather house became a "Jewish house" with 10 more Krefeld residents added.

In October 1941, deportations from Krefeld began, and Siegmund, Sabine, Grete, and Hans Schaumburger were deported along with 140 other Krefeld residents on 11 December 1941.

Sources differ on details of killing of the Schaumburgers. KEVAG Telekon reported that Siegmund was killed in the Riga-Salaspils camp on 24 June 1942, and Hans was killed in the Riga-Kaiserwald in 1943. Information on Sabine’s death is missing. Another source, "Gedenken an die NS-Opfer," reported that Sabine was killed in Riga-Kaiserwald while the other 3 family members were killed in Riga.

Regarding Grete, in contrast to her stolperstein, multiple sources state that she survived and emigrated to the USA. KEVAG Telekon states that in 1992 she wrote a letter to the Krefeld Documentation Center describing her Krefeld childhood. In the USHMM website, information from German Jews at Stutthof Concentration Camp states that Grete was in Riga, and at the Stutthof and Neuengamme camps.

"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 victim’s with the name, year 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: Tanneneichorn
• KEVAG Telekom: Siegmund Schaumburger
• Limburg an der Lahn: Gedenken an die NS-Opfer
• Limburg erinnert an die Opfer der NS-Zeit
• USHMM: Grete Schaumburger
• Stolpersteine.eu