Selma Rosenfeld, portrait photo from around 1923.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII Nr. 130)

Selma Oster Rosenfeld, portrait photo, undated.

(Private)

Selma Rosenfeld with Lina and Leo.

(Private)

Hochstrasse 37 is circled in red. Hochstrasse cuts across the middle of the picture from east to west (here from right to left). At the left edge of the photo is the Roonstrasse, which leads to the Johannis Bridge (Johannisbrücke). At the top of the picture, north of of the Deutschherrnstrasse (which runs parallel to Hochstrasse), the Deutschherrn Meadow (Deutschherrnwiese) is visible. Aerial photo 1927.

(Nuremberg City Archives, A 97 No. 264)

Selma Oster Rosenfeld

Location of stone: Hochstrasse 37 District: Himpfelshof
Sponsor: Evie Weinstein-Park Laying of stone: 30 April 2026

Biography

On 30 April 2026, Evie Weinstein-Park had stumbling stones laid for her family. Selma Rosalie Rosenfeld was her great-grandmother. Selma was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp.

Selma Rosalie Oster was born on 17 June 1876 in Brodenbach near Sankt Goar in the Rhine Province. She was the daughter of Leopold and Nanni Oster, née Steinhardt. The family moved to Würzburg, where Leopold and Nanni were administrators of the Jewish hospital.

On 18 August 1902, Selma married Hermann Rosenfeld in Würzburg. He was born on 6 October 1870 in Schopfloch near Dinkelsbühl, as the son of Zodock and Lina Rosenfeld, née Arnstein.

Hermann and Selma Rosenfeld had two children: Zacharias Leopold, born on 12 January 1904, and Lina, born on 7 April 1905. The family lived at Hochstrasse 37 from 10 July 1910.

Hermann died on 13 May 1930. Leo fled to New York in September 1938. Lina fled via London to the USA.

On 10 September 1942, Selma was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto. On 29 September 1942, she was transported to the Treblinka extermination camp. She was regarded as missing and declared dead in 1955 at the request of her children.

- Nuremberg City Archives, C 21/X Nr. 7 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. 284.

Stolpersteine in the vicinity