Ludwig, Dina, Gerda, Ruth and Käthe Annemarie Schloss

On 30 April 2024, following an initiative by the Nuremberg Football Club, five stumbling stones were laid in memory of Dina and Ludwig Schloss and their children Gerda, Ruth and Käthe Annemarie in front of the house at Rankestrasse 68. The family was able to flee to Palestine in 1936 and 1937.

On 30 April 1933, the Nuremberg Football Club expelled all its Jewish members. A total of 142 men and women were affected, many of whom had rendered great service to the club. On 30 April 2024, to remember this event, the Nuremberg Football Club, in co-operation with the history society Geschichte Für Alle (History for Everyone), laid five stumbling stones in front of the house at Rankestrasse 68: For Dina and Ludwig Schloss and their children Gerda, Ruth and Käthe Annemarie. As members of the club, Dina and Ludwig had played tennis; Gerda was a swimmer.

The businessman Ludwig Schloss was born on 30 July 1889 in Nuremberg as a son of a Jewish merchant family from Ludwigsburg, Bernhard and Therese (née Hirschberg) Schloss. Ludwig volunteered for service in the First World War, was a prisoner of war in France for six years and returned to Nuremberg in 1920.

On 2 August 1920, he married Dina, a primary school teacher, in Ludwigsburg. She was born on 26 December 1893 in Ludwigsburg as the daughter of Adolph and Fanny Elsas, née Raff.

Dina and Ludwig Schloss moved to Nuremberg to Rankestrasse 68 and had three daughters: Gerda (born 18 June 1921), Ruth (born 22 November 1922) and Käthe Annemarie (born 9 February 1927).

Ludwig Schloss owned a paper and cardboard wholesale business in the Fürther Strasse. In 1933, he won a libel case against Julius Streicher. According to the city’s residence files, on 3 December 1934 the family moved to Stuttgart, where another branch of Ludwig’s company was located.

Gerda Schloss was sent to Palestine at the end of April 1936, the remainder of the family arrived one-and-a-half years later.