| Location of stone: Knauerstrasse 27 | District: Gostenhof |
| Sponsor: Gehörlosenverein Nürnberg (Nuremberg Association for the Deaf) | Laying of stone: 21 August 2007 |
Biography
On 21 August 2007 the Gehörlosenverein Nürnberg (Nuremberg Association for the Deaf) had stumbling stones laid for Adolf Stern and his sister Sidonie, who were murdered in Riga.
Adolf, the son of Salomon and Elise Stern, was born in Erlangen-Bruck on 8 May 1878. Deaf from birth, he attended the Bavarian Institute for the Deaf and Mute in Munich. In April 1909 he moved to Nuremberg, where he worked as a bookbinder.
Am 29 November 1941 Adolf and his sister Sidonie, who was also deaf, were deported to the Riga-Jungfernhof camp and murdered there.
- Lothar Scharf: Rechtlos, schutzlos, taub und stumm! Gehörlose Juden unterm Hakenkreuz 1933-1945, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 74.
- Nuremberg City Archives, C 21/X No. 9 registration card.
- Nuremberg City Archives (Hrsg.), Gedenkbuch für die Nürnberger Opfer der Schoa (Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg, vol. 29), Nuremberg 1998, p. 336.
- Nuremberg City Archives (ed.), Gedenkbuch für die Nürnberger Opfer der Schoa, supplementary volume (Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg, vol. 30), Nuremberg 2002, p. 55.
