Moritz and Meta Salomon

On 30 April 2025, two stumbling stones were laid for Moritz and Meta Salomon. Sponsor was their granddaughter Miriam Rosen-Zvi from Israel. Moritz and Meta Salomon fled 1937 to the Netherlands. From there they were deported on 28 August 1942 to Auschwitz and murdered.

Moritz Moses Salomon was born on 6 September 1876 in Mandel, near Bad Kreuznach in what was at that time the Rhine Province. His parents were Jacob and Kunigunde Gitel Salomon (née Hiller).

In 1906, he married Meta Miriam Wertheimer. She was born on 3 January 1883 in Künzelsau, Württemberg, as the daughter of Joseph and Karoline Wertheimer (née Reiß). In 1912, the family moved to Nuremberg to Breite Gasse 93. There they had a textile and notions shop. They were active members of the Orthodox Jewish Association “Adas Israel”.

The Salomons had two children: Jacob (born on 15. June 1909) and Karoline (born on 1 May 1914). Jacob was active in the Jewish Ezra Youth Movement and moved to England at the beginning of the 1930s, where he stayed after 1933. Karoline tried to follow him, was forced to return to Germany and first arrived as a refugee in Sweden in 1935.

In 1937, Moritz and Meta fled to the Netherlands. After the German occupation, they were deported to Westerbork on 26 August 1942 and, from there, two days later to Auschwitz, where they were murdered on 31 August 1942.