Stumbling Stone Zöllnerstraße 6

These small, brass, memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate Max Pinkus and members of the Jungmann family.

* Max Pinkus, born 1884, deported 1943 Auschwitz, murdered 11 February1943.
* Hermann Jungmann, born 1879, deported 1942, murdered in occupied Poland.
* Paula Jungmann née Jungmann, born 1879, deported 1942, murdered in occupied Poland.
* Kurt Jungmann, born 1906, arrested 18.6.1938, ‘Arbeitsscheu Reich’, Sachsenhausen, 1942 Gross-Rosen, murdered 16.7.1942.
* Ruth Jungmann, married name Morath, born 1908, moved/married, deported 1943, murdered in Auschwitz.
* Judith Jungmann, born 1917, moved/professional, deported 1942 Riga, murdered 22.10.1942.

The stolperstein for Max Pinkus was installed in 2009.
Little information was found about Max Pinkus. He was married to Cilly Sara (no maiden name or other information was found about her). At some point Max was taken to Buchenwald. (He may have been among the thousands of Jewish men arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps as part of the Novemberpogram in 1938.) beenThen in 1942, he was murdered in Auschwitz. On the deportation list with Max from the Zoellnerstrasse 6 address were also: Ilse Pinkus (b. 6 Jan 1914, unmarried), Käthe Pinkus (b. 4 Feb 1923, unmarried), Elsa and Karl Pfifferline, Osminsy Heiman, and Helmut and Krojanke Rose. The relationship between Max , Ilse, and Käthe Pinkus was not found.

The stolpersteine for the Jungmann family were installed in 2016. Hermann Jungmann’s stolperstein begins with the words "Hier wohnte und arbeite" (Here lived and worked).

Hermann Jungmann was a teacher and cantor. He moved to Chemnitz in 1939 and became the head of a new Jewish elementary school. He taught here in the Jewish Cultural Association located at the back of Zoellnerstrasse 6. He and his wife Paula intended to emigrate to the U.S. but stayed in Chemnitz to run the school. In July 1942 they were deported to a ghetto in occupied Poland and murdered there.

Three of their children are also remembered here. Kurt Jungmann, a farm worker, was arrested in June 1938 in the "Arbeitsccheu Reich" Action (against the work-shy, or work shirkers). He was taken to Sachsenhausen, then deported on March 1942 to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp where he was killed on 16 July. Judith Jungmann, a nurse, was deported from Berlin on 19 October 1942 to the Riga ghetto and was killed there three days later. Ruth Jungmann (married name Moratz) was deported from Berlin in October 1943 to Auschwitz and killed there.

"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."