Stumbling Stone Würzburger Straße 15

This Stolperstein / Stumbling Stone commemorates:
* Sigmund Ernst, born 1902, deported 1942 Auschwitz, murdered 4 September 1942.

The name "Sigmund Ernst" is not in Yad Vashem or the USHMM databases. In Yad Vashem is "Ernst Sigmund" born in Scheinfeld and murdered in Auschwitz on 04-September-1932. They are probably the same person.

Ernst Sigmund was born in Scheinfeld. He and Käthe Kaufmann were married in 1925. They fled to the Netherlands in 1933 with their two young children Kurt Sigmund (age 1) and Liselotte Sigmund (age 4) and lived in various places in that country, including in Bussum where Ernst’s mother, Netta Sigmund, joined them for a while in 1940. 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.

Other stolpersteine have been placed for Ernst, his wife and their 2 children at
Neumarkt 10 in Worms, Germany.

"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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