Location of stone: Hochstrasse 32 | District: Himpfelshof |
Sponsors: Hubert Rottner Defet, Thommy Barth and others | Laying of stone: 22 May 2004 |
Biographies
On 22 May 2004 Gunter Demnig laid the first stumbling stones in Nuremberg. These included stones for Albert und Gertrud Bucki, who were murdered in Theresienstadt.
Albert Bucki, born on 6 February 1870 in the small town of Rawitsch in the province Posen (Poznań), was the son of Baskil und Johanna, (née Sternberg). In June 1903 he married Gertrud Glogauer, who had been born on 7 June 1878 in Lissa (Leszno). The town lies approximately 20 kilometres north of Rawitsch. Her parents were Louis und Pauline, (née Ollendorf). Poznań belonged to Prussia at the time. However, most of the province was ceded to the Republic of Poland after the First World War, in accord with the Versailles Treaty.
After the wedding, the couple moved to Krefeld, where Albert worked as a tradesman. Their three daughters were born there: Paula (on 25 September 1904), Johanna (on 14 November 1907) and Herta (on 10 June 1911). In 1916 the family moved to Nuremberg, where Albert ran a clothes and furniture business at Hefnersplatz.
Paula married Justus Kohn on 9 August 1933 and one week later moved with him to Barcelona.
Johanna married Moritz Sommerhäuser on 20 November 1934 and lived with him in his native Berlin. On 3 March 1943 they were both deported to Auschwitz and murdered there.
Herta fled with Martin Mayer to Havana, having marred on 31 August 1938 in Nuremberg.
On 10 September 1942 Albert and Gertud Bucki were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where Albert died on 7 December 1942 and Gertrud on 11 July 1944.
- Nuremberg City Archives, C 21/X No. 2 registration card.
- Nuremberg City Archives (ed.), Gedenkbuch für die Nürnberger Opfer der Schoa (Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg, vol. 29), Nuremberg 1998, p. 42.
- www.hagalil.com/2018/11/mayer [accessed on 30 June 2021].