On 27 November 2024 Guther Demnig laid a stumbling stone for Mariem Wiener at the initiative of her great-granddaughter Judith Elam. Mariem was deported from Nuremberg during the so-called “Polish Action” (“Polenaktion”) and died in Poland, probably in the Lwow ghetto.

Mariem Wiener was born on 27 May 1876 in Poloniczna, then in Poland, as the daughter of Sender and Chane Rosa Wiener. Her first marriage was to Abraham Tenenbaum, son of Samuel David Marderfeld and Freide Tenenbaum. The couple lived in Toporow, then in Poland. They had two children: Frieda, born on 2 January 1903 and Abraham, born 25. April 1905. Her husband Abraham died on 14 March 1905. In 1912, Mariem moved to Nuremberg.

On 8 December 1919, she married Jakob Judah HaLevi Mansbach. He was born on 25 May 1864 in Olpiny, Poland, as the son of Tesa David and Taube Hena (née Liehmann) Mansbach. He brought seven children from his first marriage into the union. The couple lived at what was then Ziegelgasse 22 (today’s Karl-Bröger-Straße 22). In January 1930, Jakob moved to Berlin to live with one of his children and died there in 1931.

On 28 October 1938, the Reich Government ordered the so-called “Polish Action”. In the entire German Reich, about 17,000 Polish Jews were arrested and forcibly deported over the border into Poland, including Mariem. From this point onward, there is no more official information about her fate. A letter in possession of her family mentions her presence in August 1939 with her mother in Lwow (today Lviv, Ukraine). One assumes that both died in the Lwow ghetto. The death of her mother, Chane Rosa Wiener, is recorded; Mariem’s is not.