| Location of stones: Pirckheimerstrasse 135 (formerly Obere Pirckheimerstrasse 61) | District: Gärten hinter der Veste |
| Sponsor: Nancy Freund Heller | Laying of stones: 27 November 2024 |
Biography
On 27 November 2024 Gunter Demnig laid two stumbling stones for Max and Bella Freund. Their great-niece Nancy Freund Heller, who researches the history of her family, was sponsor. On 29 November 1941, Max and Bella were deported to Riga-Jungfernhof and murdered there. Their son Walter emigrated in 1938 to Chicago, USA.
Max Freund was born on 27 March 1885 in Kleinwallstadt in Lower Franconia. He was the son of Liebmann and Sara (née Grünebaum) Freund. Max moved to Nuremberg in 1917. There, together with his brother Hugo, he founded a company Gebrüder Freund, which sold decorative leather and wool products.
His wife Bella was born in Nuremberg on 9 October 1894. She was the daughter of Emanuel and Hanny (née Kohn) Gerngroß. The Freunds had a son, Walter (born on 24 March 1920). The family lived from 1933 at what was then the Upper Pirkheimerstrasse 61 (today Pirckheimerstrasse 135).
On 29 November 1941, Max and Bella were deported to Riga-Jungfernhof and murdered there.
