Stumbling Stones Neumarkt 10

These Stolpersteine / Stumbling Stones were laid in 3 different years. They commemorate two families.

Stolpersteine were laid first in 2011 for Betty Herzog and her son Rudolf Herzog in 2011. Then in 2012, stolpersteine were laid for Jakob’s brother Siegmund Herzog and his wife Henriette Herzog.

* Betty Herzog née Furchheimer, born 1884, deported 1940 Gurs, deported 1942 Auschwitz, murdered 1942.
* Rudolf Herzog, born 1914, deported 1940 Gurs, deported 1942 Auschwitz, murdered 1942.
* Siegmund Herzog, born 1880, deported 1940, dead 1941, Gurs.
* Henriette Herzog née Freyberger, born 1879, deported 1940 Gurs, 1942 Auschwitz, murdered.

Betty Herzog's husband (Rudolf’s father) Jakob Herzog died before WW2. Their daughter Elsbeth fled to the USA after Kristallnacht. All four Herzogs living at this address were deported in 1940 to Gurs, a large internment camp in southern France. Siegmund died there in 1941; Betty, Rudolf and Henriette lived until they were deported to Auschwitz and murdered in 1942.

In 2013, stolpersteine were laid for the Sigmund family.
* Kurt Albert Sigmund, born 1933, fled to Holland 1933, interned at Westerbork, deported 1942 Auschwitz, murdered 1942.
* Liselotte Sigmund, born 1929, fled to Holland 1933, interned at Westerbork, deported 1942 Auschwitz, murdered 1942.
* Ernst Sigmund, born 1902, fled to Holland 1933, interned at Westerbork, deported 1942 Auschwitz, murdered 1942.
*Käthe Sigmund, born 1905, fled to Holland 1933, interned at Westerbork, deported 1942 Auschwitz, murdered 1942.

Ernst Sigmund and Käthe Kaufmann were married in 1925. They fled to the Netherlands in 1933 with their two young children Kurt (age 1) and Liselotte (age 4) and lived in various places in that country, including in Bussum where Ernst’s mother, Netta Sigmund, joined them for a few months in 1940 before moving again. Ernst had found a hiding place in Huizen, NL and had taken some belongings there prior to their move. But the day before they planned to move, they were arrested and taken first to Westerbork and later to Auschwitz. Käthe/Kätchen and the children were murdered the same day in Auschwitz -- 12 August 1942. Ernst survived there another 3 weeks. His mother, who also moved several times, did not escape: she was murdered in March 1943 in Sobibor.

Another stolpersteine for Ernst Sigmund is at Würzburger Straße 15 in Scheinfeld, Germany, the town where he was born.

"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."

For more information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine Worms (in German).