On 18 September 2015 Tony and Judy Vasos had stumbling stones laid for his grandparents Hugo und Clementine Mosbacher and for Hugo’s sister Frieda Röderer. Hugo and Clementine had tried unsuccessfully to flee to the USA. They were murdered in Auschwitz. Only their daughter Rosi managed to emigrate via England to the USA.

Hugo Mosbacher was born on 9 January 1880 in Fürth. His father Sigmund was a teacher at the Jewish orphanage there. His sister Lina came to Graz to work for the Adler family as a governess. Through Lina, Hugo met Clementine Adler. Clementine was born on 20 December 1886 in Mürzzuschlag in Styria. Her father Ignaz Adler was a wholesaler of leather goods.

Hugo and Clementine married on 3 September 1911 in Graz, subsequently moving to Nuremberg. Hugo worked as a trader and was co-owner of a company dealing in scrap metal. On 14 July 1916 their daughter Rosi was born.

During the “Night of Broken Glass” on 9/10 November 1938 SA men arrested Hugo and he was taken to Dachau, where he was kept prisoner for several weeks.

After Rosi had successfully completed her studies at the Jewish teacher training college in Würzburg, she was able to emigrate to England in 1939. Her parents wanted visas for the USA for all three family members but were unsuccessful in obtaining them. On 18 February 1940 Hugo and Clementine fled Nuremberg, illegally crossed the border into the Netherlands and reached Clementine’s sister Trude in Amsterdam.

From there, they tried again to emigrate to the USA but this became impossible when the German army conquered the Netherlands. In 1942 Hugo and Clementine were arrested and brought to Westerbork concentration camp. They were subsequently deported to Auschwitz. They arrived there on 2 February 1943 and were murdered.