Am 16. Juli 2020 Nathalie Frank had four stumbling stones laid for her grandmother’s uncle Simon Löb, his wife and sons. Simon was murdered during the “Night of Broken Glass”. The two sons died in the extermination camp at Majdanek. Only Emilie Löb survived the Holocaust.

Simon Löb was born on 14 June 1874 in Gersheim in Saarland, the son of Salomon and Klara (née Weil). In July 1906 he moved to Nuremberg, where he ran an export business.

On 29 December 1907 he married Emilie Seidenberger. Emilie was born on 28 February 1885 in Nuremberg. Her parents were August and Lina (née Rosen). The couple had two sons: Fritz was born on 13 January 1909 and Rudolf on 28 March 1913. In the First World War Simon served as a soldier in the Bavarian Army.

Like his father, Fritz worked as a trader. From 26 August 1933 until 6 June 1934 he was a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp. Rudolf worked as a travelling representative. In March 1938 he emigrated to Paris, followed in October 1938 by his elder brother.

In the “Night of Broken Glass” on 9/10 November 1938, Simon and Emilie were assaulted in their apartment on the first floor of the house at Mittlere Pirckheimerstrasse 22. SA-men threw Simon down the stairs and trampled him to death. His wife threw herself over Simon to protect him and suffered serious injuries during the attack.

At the beginning of April 1940 Emilie fled to Paris, roughly four weeks before the German army attacked France and took over the country. In Paris she survived the Second World War.

Her sons, like tens of thousands of other Jews living in France, were interned in the collection camp at Drancy, a few kilometres northeast of Paris. On 6 March 1943 they were deported to Majdanek concentration camp and murdered there.