Stumbling Stones Virchowstraße 9

These Stolpersteine /Stumbling Stones commemorate:
* Louis Dormitzer, born 1863, deported 1942 to Theresienstadt, murdered 26 February 1943.
* Sophie Dormitzer nee Kupfer, born 1871, deported 1942 to Theresienstadt, murdered 23 September 1942.

Louis Dormitzer and his wife Sophie had 2 children: Max died in WW1 and Lili survived. Louis and Sophie were deported on the same day in September to Theresienstadt along with 531 other Nürnberg residents. Only 16 survived the war. Sophie was killed 2 weeks later; she was 71. Louis survived there another 5½ months; he was 79.

Louis had 2 sisters, for whom no information was found on their deaths. His brother, Dr. jur. Sigmund Johannes Dormitzer, fled to Holland but was deported from there and was murdered in Theresienstadt at the end of 1943.

Sophie’s only sibling alive at the beginning of the war was also killed in the Shoah: her brother, Siegfried Kupfer Dr. jur., was murdered in Riga in 1941.

"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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