Nathan Adler, portrait photo from around 1936.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII Nr. 1)

Essenweinstrasse 7 is circled in red. At the northern end of the street, at Frauentorgraben, is the Färber schoolhouse. Parts of the Verkehrsmuseum (Transport Museum) can be seen on the far right of the picture. Aerial photo 1927.

(Nuremberg City Archives, A 97 No. 331)

Nathan and Mirjam Adler

Location of stones: Essenweinstraße 7 District: Tafelhof
Sponsor: Nuremberg Teachers Association Laying of stones: 27 November 2024

Biography

On 27 November 2024, the Nuremberg Teachers Association had two stumbling stones laid for Nathan Adler and his wife Miriam. Nathan Adler was a member of the association. Nathan, Miriam and their children Hermann and Josef Gabriel are victims of the Shoah.

Nathan Adler was born on 18 November 1879 in Burgpreppach in Lower Franconia. His parents were the trader Emanuel Adler and his wife Frau Karoline (née Rothstein). He received his education as a teacher at the Jewish Teachers College in Höchburg in Lower Franconia. He taught first at the Jewish secondary schools in Fürth and Ansbach, before he moved to Nuremberg in 1925 and became a teacher at the school of the Jewish Orthodox community Adass Israel.

His wife Mirjam was also a teacher. She was born on 8 February 1888 in Hamburg as the daughter of Kolmann and Mathilde (née Dinkelspühler) Rothschild. The Adlers married on 31 October 1911 in Hamburg.

The couple had five children: Hermann, born on 23 October 1912 (in Ansbach) and Leo, born on 17 March 1915; Emanuel, born on 19 August 1920; Mathilde, born on 29 May 1922 and Josef Gabriel, born on 6 March 1924 (in Nuremberg). The family lived at Essenweinstraße 7.

Nathan and Mirjam were deported on 29 November 1941 to Riga-Jungfernhof. Mirjam was murdered in November 1941; Nathan in February 1942.

- Nuremberg City Archives, C 21/X Nr. 1 registration card.

- Nuremberg City Archives (ed.), Gedenkbuch für die Nürnberger Opfer der Schoa (Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg, vol. 29), Nuremberg 1998, p. 5-6.

- Talmud.de (https://www.talmud.de/tlmd/author/nathanadler/) [accessed on 20 January 2025]

Stolpersteine in the vicinity