Jasser family home

On January 23, 1901, Irma Jasser was born in Rosbach as the daughter of Jacob Leeser and Hermine Hecht. Her parents ran the first Jewish textile business in Rosbach. Irma learned the trade of hatmaker and milliner in Cologne, probably in the branch of Benno and Sybilla Leeser's ladies' hat business in Dusseldorf. In 1925 she married the Jewish merchant Hugo Kaminka, who worked briefly in Cologne. In 1926 she gave her life to Wolfgang in Gießen, but after 7 years of marriage she divorced him, took her maiden name and moved back to her parents in Rosbach. There she married Rudolf Jasser, of non-Jewish faith, on April 28, 1933. Wolfgang attended the Protestant elementary school and suffered greatly under the National Socialist-minded teacher. In November 1938, not only was the family's home destroyed, but Wolfgang was also banned from attending school. To continue his education at the Jewish school Jawne in Köln, he moved in with relatives at Maastricher Str. 3. In 1942, he was deported from Köln to Minsk and murdered. That is why there is also a Stumbling Stone in Köln for Wolfgang Horst Kanninka, i.e. with a misspelled surname. His mother Irma was able to go into hiding and survive thanks to the courage of friends and relatives. In Rosbach, however, two men from her second husband's family are known to have been leading drivers in the anti-Semitic riots on November 10, 1938.