Albert Mayer

Albert Mayer was born on June 14, 1874 in Mainz. His parents were the son of Bernhard Albert Mayer and Henriette Mayer, née Rindskopf. Albert Mayer was married to Emma Lauinger, born on September 28, 1887 in Nuremberg. Emma Mayer's parents were Julius Lauinger from Binswangen and Jeanne Johanna Lauinger, née Worms from Strasbourg. Albert and Emma Mayer had three children - Julia Mayer, born in 1910,  Margit Marguerite, married name Weinbach, born March 23, 1913 and Bernhard Albert Mayer, born October 14, 1914. Albert  Mayer managed to emigrate to France, but was deported from Drancy to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp on December 17, 1943 and murdered there. His wife Emma fled to France with their parents in 1939 and continued on to Switzerland in 1940. Julia and Margit Mayer survived with help. Bernhard Albert fled to Switzerland as early as 1937 and survived the Holocaust there. Five stumbling stones laid at Kaiserstrasse 53 in Mainz commemorate the fate of the Mayers and their children.