| Location of stones: Gartenstrasse 4 | District: Gostenhof |
| Sponsor: Leonard Saxe and Marion Gardner-Saxe | Laying of stones: 8 June 2025 |
Biography
On 8 June 2025, a stumbling stone was laid for Anna Gärtner. Her granddaughter Marion Gardner-Saxe and her husband Leonard Saxe were sponsors for the laying. Anna Gärtner fled to France in 1939.
Siegfried Gärtner was born on 21 November 1872 in Nuremberg, as the son of Michael and Marie (née Goldschmidt) Gärtner. He studied business and was the owner of a company that manufactured ovens, the Vereinigte Herd- und Ofenfabriken Gärtner & Co.
On 7 April 1904, he married Anna Hamberger in Fürth. She was born there on 28 February 1882 as the daughter of Heinrich and Marie (née Schönberg) Hamburger.
The couple had two children: Rudolf, born on 14 April 1908, and Heinrich, born on 30 March 1912. In March 1909, the family moved to Sandstrasse 18. Siegfried died on 22 June 1925. Afterwards, Anna moved twice: Her last address in Nuremberg was Gartenstrasse 4.
Even before the National Socialists took power, Heinrich left for Paris. A notice in his record says: Moved on 2 January 1933. Anna followed him to France in April 1939. There, she received a visa for the USA and left France on 20 December 1939.
