On 22 May 2004 Gunter Demnig laid the first stumbling stones in Nuremberg. These included the stones for Josef and Selma Triest, who were murdered in Izbica.

Josef Triest was born on 14 June 1877 in Bamberg. His parents were Moritz Triest and Emilia (née Böhm). Josef worked as a trader. On 16 April 1906 he moved to Nuremberg and ten days later married Selma Steinacher. Born in Nuremberg on 17 October 1882, Selma was the daughter of Moritz Steinacher and Rosa (née Dingfelder). On 9 June 1907 her son Kurt was born – the couple’s only child.

At the end of the 1920s Kurt was working as a draughtsman and photographer. From 1930 to 1932 he lived in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, before returning to Nuremberg. In June 1936 he left his home city and emigrated to Palestine. There, he continued to work as a photographer. Nuremberg City Archives dedicated an exhibition to him in 2006: on display were photographs of Nuremberg taken by him in the 1930s and which he had already presented to the archives as a gift in 1980. He died in 1985 in Tel Aviv.

His parents Josef und Selma Triest were deported to Izbica on 24 March 1942 and murdered.