On 22 Mai 2004 Gunter Demnig laid the first stumbling stones in Nuremberg. These included the stone for Ludwig Ehrlich, who was murdered in Izbica.

Ludwig Ehrlich was born on 3 August 1887 in Nuremberg. His parents were Moritz Ehrlich and Karoline (née Ullmann). Like his father, Ludwig worked as a dealer in leather goods.

In March 1921 Ludwig married Elsa Schloß in Dettelbach. Elsa, who was born in Dettelbach on 8 March 1897, gave birth to daughter Lotte, the couple’s only child, on 3 February 1924. At the instigation of her parents, Lotte (15 years old at the time) was able to emigrate to England on 19 June 1939, as part of the Kindertransport programme for refugee children.

The first two deportation trains left Nuremberg on 29 November 1941 and 24 March 1942. About a thousand Nuremberg Jews were deported – only a few Jewish citizens lived in the city. On 23 April 1942, police arrested 19 Jews who, either by accident or due to illness, had been left behind during the previous transport.

A few days before, on 16 April, 45-year-old Elsa Ehrlich died in the Jewish hospital in Fürth. It is probable that she committed suicide.

Ludwig Ehrlich was one of the 19 people arrested in April and subsequently deported. The transport reached the transit camp near the city of Krasniczyn, on 25 April, about 20 kilometres north of Izbica. From there, Ludwig was brought to the Izbica ghetto, where he was murdered on 1 May 1942.