Hermann Fromm, portrait photo from around 1919.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII Nr. 44)

Ida Fromm, portrait photo from around 1932.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII Nr. 44)

Albert Fromm, portrait photo from around 1925.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII Nr. 44)

Hermann and Ida Oster Fromm

(Private)

Albert Fromm

(Private)

Bärenschanzstrasse 29 is circled in red. The buildings of the Bärenschanz barracks can be seen to the north. At the west side of the block of houses, the Dilherrstrasse runs from the Bärenschanzstrasse to Fürther Strasse (here from above to below). In the lower third of the picture, the Fürther Strasse, with the tracks of the Ludwig Railway cuts the photo from west to east (here from left to right).
Aerial photo 1927.

(Nuremberg City Archives, A 97 No. 284)

Hermann, Ida and Albert Fromm

Location of stone: Bärenschanzstrasse 29 District: Gostenhof
Sponsor: Evie Weinstein-Park Laying of stone: 30 April 2026

Biography

On 30 April 2026, Evie Weinstein-Park had stumbling stones laid for her family. She is the great-granddaughter of Hermann and Ida Fromm. Hermann, Ida and their son Albert were victims of the Shoah.

Hermann Fromm was born on 13 December 1868 in Großlangheim in Lower Franconia, as the son of Josef Fromm and Fanny, née Neuburger.

In October 1899, he married Ida Oster in Würzburg. She was born on 12 February 1875 in Brodenbach near Sankt Goar in the Rhine Province, as the daughter of Leopold and Marie Oster, née Steinhardt.

The couple had six children. The first three were born in Regensburg: Albert, on 28 August 1899, Irma, on 2 February 1901, and Käthe, on 29 March 1904. The family moved in 1904 to Nuremberg, where he last three children were born: Luise, on 23 November 1905, Ludwig, on 30 August 1911, and Fritz, on 17 July 1913.

From 24 June 1912, the family lived at Bärenschanzstrasse 29.

Luise and Käthe died young in 1921 and 1930 respectively. Irma and Ludwig fled abroad with their spouses: Irma to the USA and Ludwig to France. Fritz moved on 30 July 1936 to Oberglogau in Upper Silesia.

Albert Fromm worked in purchasing and moved to Mainz in September 1927. He returned to Nuremberg in 1938. He was deported on 24 March 1942 to the Izbica Ghetto and murdered there.

Hermann and Ida Fromm were deported on 10 September 1942 to the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Hermann died there on 18 September 1942. Ida was transported to the Treblinka extermination camp on 29 September 1942 and murdered there.

- Nuremberg City Archives, C 21/X Nr. 3 registration card.

- Nuremberg City Archives (ed.), Gedenkbuch für die Nürnberger Opfer der Schoa (Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg, vol. 29), Nuremberg 1998, p. 85-86.

Stolpersteine in the vicinity