Apartment of the family Hans and Hilde Kramer

Since 1926 at the latest, the Jewish businessman Hans Kramer (*15 September 1893), his wife Hilde Kramer (née Rindskopf, *29 January 1900) and their two children Anneliese and Walter lived at Elsterstraße 7. Before that, Hans Kramer lived with his brother Willy and his father Hugo at Oststraße 50. Hans' mother, Friederike Kramer (née Dalber), lived only a few houses away at Elsterstraße 11a.
Hans Kramer was a partner and co-owner of the company „Franz Müller & Kramer, Mechanische Wollweberei“, in which his father had already been admitted as such in 1881 . In 1937 the family lived at 7 Admiral Scheer Street, to which Elster Street was renamed on May 31, 1934. In 1938 the pressure on Jewish businessmen became too great for the family and they left Germany. They emigrated via Switzerland to Southern France and lived near Nice. From there Hans and Hilde Kramer were taken to the Drancy camp and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on November 3, 1942. In 1942/44 they perished. In 1946/47, Anneliese Kramer lived again for a short time in Greiz at Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 7 before moving to West Berlin. There she married (new family name: Grinberg) and later moved to Israel. Her brother Walter Kramer lived in the USA in 1980. He died in 1995 in Los Angeles.
On October 18, 2011, two Stolpersteine were laid for Hans and Hilde Kramer in Gartenweg 7 (narrow side of the apartment building) in Greiz.