HERE LIVED EMMA EDELSCHILD, GEB. KAUFMANN, JG. 1879, FLEW 1937, USA

HERE LIVED, FRITZ EDELSCHILD, JG. 1909, FLUCHT 1937, USA

HERE LIVED MARGARETE EDELSCHILD, YEAR 1907, FLUCHT 1937, BRAZIL

HERE LIVED ROSALIE KAUFMANN, YEAR 1865, DEPORTED 1940, GURS, FATE UNKNOWN

Rosalie Kaufmann was a master tailor by trade

The family of the merchant Nathan Herz was deported to Gurs in 1940, where he died on December 29. The fate of his wife Auguste and son Siegfried are unknown; like the other survivors of the Gurs camp, they will have been taken to the death camps in the East and murdered there. Only Gertrude Wertheimer, a relative of Auguste Herz, was able to escape to England in 1939.

HERE LIVED ROSA ITZKOWITZ, GEB. PRINCE, YEAR 1872, DEPORTED 1940, GURS, MURDERED

Rosa Itzkowitz was the widow of Daniel Itzkowitz, a used goods merchant.

Alfred Grünbaum lived and practiced in the magnificent villa of the master builders Johann and Isidor Belzer on the Murg. He was also a doctor at the municipal hospital in Rastatt. He was born in 1900 in Homburg am Main. With his wife, Gertrude Nachmann from Gernsbach, he had two children, Ernst Max born in 1928 and Gerhart born in 1932. As a well-known personality in the city, Alfred Grünebaum was exposed to anti-Semitic hostility even before the National Socialists came to power.

HERE LIVED LEOPOLD NACHMANN, JG. 1873, DEPORTED 1940, GURS, INTERNED RIVESALTES, DEAD 7.12.1941

HERE LIVED JOHANNA NACHMANN, GEB. MÜLLER, JG. 1878, FLEW TO DEATH, AUGUST 16, 1939

HERE LIVED ILSE KUCH, GEB. NACHMANN, JG. 1904, DEPORTED 1940, GURS, INTERNED DRANCY, 1942 AUSCHWITZ, MURDERED

HERE LIVED MARTIN KUCH, JG. 1907 , ARRESTED 1939, PRISONED TÜBINGEN, FORCED NEUMÜHLE, 1943 AUSCHWITZ, 1945 BUCHENWALD, MURDERED

HERE LIVED, MANFRED KUCH, YEAR 1936, DEPORTED 1940, GURS, FATE UNKNOWN

Inscription of the stumbling stone:

HERE LIVED

BERTOLD DREYFUSS

JG. 1886

"PROTECTED" 1938

DACHAU

FLEECH FRANCE

INTERNATE DRANCY

DEPORTED 1942

MURDERED IN

AUSCHWITZ

HERE LIVED MAX LEVY, JG. 1894, DEPORTED 1940, GURS, FATE UNKNOWN

HERE LIVED HENRIETTE LINDNER, JG. 1868, DEPORTED 1940, GURS, DEAD 11/5/1944, LE VERNET

In Herrenstraße 2 lived Jacques Dienstag, who, after he had to leave his apartment in Bahnhofstraße 44, had found shelter there with the Klumpp family. Jacques Dienstag, who had been the manager of the Knopf department store in Kaiserstraße (the later KD), was deported to Gurs in the Pyrenees in 1940 and murdered in Ausschwitz in 1942.

Two Stolpersteine were laid for members of the Rastatt families Bakofen and Kuhn, who ran a grain store on Rauentalerstraße. Henriette Bakofen was the daughter of Josef Bakofen, a native of Bohemia, who had married Elise Maier of Rastatt after his military service. In 1886, Henriette married Bernhard Kuhn, a merchant from the Palatinate, who became a partner in the grain business. After Josef Bakofen retired from the business, it was continued by Bernhard Kuhn and Emil Bakofen, Josef Bakofen's youngest son, born in 1877. Emil married Hedwig Katzenstein, a native of Eschwege.