Simon Löb, portrait photo from around 1930.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII-GB No. 1232)

Emilie Löb, portrait photo from around 1920.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII No. 92)

Emilie Löb, portrait photo from around 1930.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII No. 92)

Fritz Löb, portrait photo from around 1925.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII-GB No. 92)

Fritz Löb, portrait photo from around 1935.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII No. 92)

Rudolf Löb, portrait photo from around 1925.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII No. 92)

Rudolf Löb, portrait photo from around 1935.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII No. 92)

Mittlere Pirckheimerstrasse 22 (today Pirckheimerstrasse 32) is circled in red. It is located directly on the corner with Krelingstrasse, which runs here from south to north. At the upper end of Krelingstrasse is the Oberfinanzdirektion Nuremberg (regional finance office). Today the building houses the Bavarian State Tax Office. Aerial photo 1927.

(Nuremberg City Archives, A 97 No. 217)

Simon, Emilie, Fritz and Rudolf Löb

Location of stone: Pirckheimerstraße 32 (formerly: Mittlere Pirckheimerstraße 22) District: Gärten hinter der Veste
Sponsor: Nathalie Frank Laying of stone: 16 July 2020

Biographies

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.

- Nuremberg City Archives, C 21/X No. 5 registration cards.

- Nuremberg City Archives (ed.), Gedenkbuch für die Nürnberger Opfer der Schoa (Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg, vol. 29), Nuremberg 1998, p. 204f.

- 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. 36.

- www.rijo.homepage.t-online.de/pdf/DE_NU_JU_kristald.pdf [accessed on 7 July 2021].

 

Stolpersteine in the vicinity