Louis Dormitzer, portrait photo from around 1920.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII No. 27)

Sophie Dormitzer, portrait photo from around 1920.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII No. 27)

Virchowstrasse 9 is circled in red. The municipal park restaurant complex and the rose garden are visible in the middle of the park. On the far right of the picture, Virchowstrasse leads into the tree-covered Bayreuther Strasse. Aerial photo 1927.

(Nuremberg City Archives, A 97 No. 214)

Louis and Sophie Dormitzer

Location of stone: Virchowstrasse 9 District: Maxfeld
Sponsor: Dr. Hans Bucher Laying of stone: 3 October 2012

Biographies

On 3 October 2012 Gunter Demnig laid stumbling stones for Louis and Sophie Dormitz, who were murdered in Theresienstadt. Dr. Hans Bucher sponsored the laying of the stones. His surgery is located in the house the Dormitzers were living in before they were deported.

Trader Louis Dormitzer was born on 8 June 1863 in Nuremberg. His parents were the wholesaler Philipp Dormitzer and his wife Jeanette (née Besels).

Louis had four brothers and sisters. These included the judicial councillor Dr. Sigmund Dormitzer, married to Else Dormitzer (née Forchheimer), the journalist and author of children’s books. Her pseudonym was Else Dorn.

Louis married Sophie Kupfer. Sophie, daughter of Sigmund and Mina Kupfer, was born in Burgkunstadt on 9 January 1871. The couple had two children: Lilly (born 26 March 1895) and Max (born 10 August 1897).

Max served in Bavarian Army in the First World War and was killed in action on 1 October 1917.

Lilly married Otto Aschaffenburg in 1918 and moved with him to Frankfurt am Main.

Louis and Sophie were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on 10 September 1942 and murdered there. Sophie died on 23 September 1942, Louis on 26 February 1943.

- Nuremberg City Archives, C 21/X No. 2 registration cards.

- Nuremberg City Archives (ed.), Gedenkbuch für die Nürnberger Opfer der Schoa (Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg, vol. 29), Nuremberg 1998, p. 32f.

- Nuremberg City Archives (ed.), Gedenkbuch für die Nürnberger Opfer der Schoa, supplementary volume (Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg, vol. 30), Nuremberg 2002, p. 59.

Stolpersteine in the vicinity