HN. 112 Butcher Lazarus Strauss and his wife Rebekka (née Hubert)

Around 1883, the butcher Lazarus Strauß acquired house no. 112 in Maßbach. He was born on February 25, 1858 in Maßbach, the son of master butcher Nathan Strauß from Oberlauringen and his wife Rachel, née Themar, from house no. 90. His wife Rebekka Hubert, born on December 19, 1862 in Cronheim near Gunzenhausen, moved with him. December 1862 in Cronheim near Gunzenhausen, moved into the newly acquired house with him.

Their three children were born in HN 112: Joseph Eugen (December 4, 1885), Siegfried (July 15, 1892) and Rosa (June 21, 1901). For many years, the house was the center of family life. Lazarus worked as a butcher, Rebekka ran the household and brought up the children.

In 1911, the family sold the house and moved into apartment building no. 86. The economic difficulties of the time weighed heavily on the family; Lazarus Strauß went bankrupt in 1914. He died on August 8, 1919 at the age of 61½. His widow Rebekka then lived in very modest circumstances and later moved into the community-owned house no. 161, the so-called „Jewish school“, which also housed the mikvah. She spent the rest of her life there, occasionally met up with neighbors for coffee and remained firmly integrated into the village community into old age.

The children's fate took them in different directions: Siegfried died in Stuttgart in 1935 at the age of just 43, Joseph Eugen moved to Munich and was deported and murdered in 1942. Rosa emigrated to the USA, lived in New York and later called herself Rosel Royce. She was the only survivor of the family.

Today, a stumbling block in front of Rebekka Strauß's last home commemorates her and the Jewish history of house no. 112, which was a silent witness to Jewish family life in Maßbach for decades.