Stumbling Stones Austraße 23

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

* Flora Kahn née Himmelreich, born 1878, deported 1941, Riga, murdered.
* Else Pottlitzer née Kahn, born 1905, moved 1937, Hamburg, 1941 Berlin, deported 1942, Riga, murdered.
* Selma Breslauer née Kahn, born 1910, moved 1937, Hamburg, deported 1941, Minsk, murdered.

Flora Kahn was the mother of both Else Pottlitzer and Selma Breslauer. Flora’s permanent residence was Bamberg, and on 29 November 1941 she was deported from Nürnberg to Riga. (She probably was taken from Bamberg with 117 others to Nürnberg on the 27th.) Her daughters were both born in Bamberg. Each married and moved away – Else to Hamburg and then to Berlin, from where she was deported, and Selma to Hamburg, from where she was deported. No other information was found about the lives of these 3 women or their families.

* Isidor Reichmannsdorfer, born 1884, deported 1941, Riga, murdered.

According to a relative’s testimony, Isidor Reichmannsdorfer was single man, the son of Babette (Bertha) Kohn & Heinrich Reichmannsdorfer. His permanent residence was Bamberg. He was sent to Dachau at some point during the war and apparently released. He was probably taken with other Bamberg residents on 27 November 1942 Nürnberg. Records show that on 29 November 1942, 118 Bamberg Jews were deported from Nürnberg along with about 900 others to Jungfernhof Camp, near Riga, Latvia. Only 25 from that deportation are known to have survived.

* Samuel Dames, born 1880, fled 1939 to Italy, interned Fossoli di Carpi, deported 1944, Auschwitz, murdered 10 April 1944.
* Johanna Dames née Rogozinski, born 1887, fled 1939 to Italy, interned Fossoli di Carpi, deported 1944, murdered in Auschwitz.

Samuel Dames, a Polish business owner, married Johanna Rogozinski, a German citizen. Both fled to Italy where they lived in Verona for about 5 years before being interned in Rome and then deported on 05 April 1944 to Auschwitz. They had at least one child: a granddaughter submitted testimony about them to Yad Vashem.

* Esther Kohn, born 1900, deported 1941, Riga, murdered.

Little information was found about Esther Kohn. She was born in Nürnberg, and some sources say her last address was in that city (at Frauentormauer 92). She was deported from Nürnberg on 29 November 1941 on a train carrying about 1000 Jews to Jungfernhof Camp near Riga. On that train were also 4 residents (the Lerner family) from her Nürnberg address.

"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: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: Anne Palmer (1), Anne Palmer (2)
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
• Yad Vashem Deportation Database
• Stolpersteine.eu