On 29 April 2026, two stumbling stones were laid for Emanuel and Sofie Kocherthaler. Their great-great-grandchild Tamar Yissar was sponsor. Emanuel and Sofie were murdered in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.

Emanuel Kocherthaler was born on 28 February 1861 in Ernsbach near Öhringen in Württemberg, as the son of a farmer Joseph Simon Kocherthaler and his wife Regine, née Rosenthal.

On 16 June 1895, he married Sofie Babette Obermeyer in Fürth. She was born there on 17 April 1871, as the daughter of Isaak Obermeyer and Amalie, née Berolzheimer.

The couple had two daughters: Alice, born on 5 June 1896, and Frieda, born on 12 May 1897, both in Nuremberg.

The family moved into Tafelhofstrasse 26 in October 1926.

Frieda married Theodor Moßbacher in February 1922. She moved with him to Frankfurt am Main in March 1931 and then on to Palestine.

In October 1936, Alice married Dr. Max Strauss. He was a doctor and had lived in Nuremberg since 1907, before that he had worked at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Alice was his third wife. He brought two daughters with him to the marriage. The Strauss family fled to New York in 1940.

Emanuel and Sofie remained in Nuremberg. Between May 1938 and September 1942 they were forced to move three times. On 10 September 1942, they were deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Emanuel died there on 11 October 1942 and Sofie on 12 January 1943.