Wilhelm Berlin, portrait photo from around 1917.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII Nr. 12)

Wilhelm Berlin, portrait photo from around 1933.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII Nr. 12)

Gertrud Berlin, Portrait photo from around 1926.

(Nuremberg City Archives, C21/VII Nr. 12)

Marienstrasse 12 is circled in red. To the east (here to the left) is Marienplatz, today Willy-Brandt-Platz. Above it is Marienstrasse, which cuts across the Marienvorstadt from west to east. At the bottom of the photo the tracks of the main railway station are visible. Aerial photo 1927.

(Nuremberg City Archives, A 97 No. 325)

Wilhelm and Gertrud Berlin

Location of stone: Marienstrasse 12 District: Marienvorstadt
Sponsor: Anita Berlin Laying of stone: 24 October 2025

Biography

On 24 October 2025, two stumbling stones were laid for Wilhelm and Gertrud Berlin. Their great-niece Anita Berlin was sponsor. Wilhelm and Gertrud were deported on 24 March 1942 to Izbica and murdered there. Their daughter Rinette fled to England and survived the Shoah.

Wilhelm Berlin was born on 1 June 1879 in Nuremberg. His parents were Dr. Heinrich Berlin and his wife Frau Babette, née Kann. Wilhelm was a wholesaler and served as a soldier in World War I.

On 20 December 1926, he married Gertrud Windesheim in Erfurt. She was born there on 5 September 1902, as the daughter of Max Windesheim and his wife Adele, née Dessauer.

On 9 November 1927, their daughter Renate was born in Nuremberg. Shortly thereafter the family moved into their home in Marienstrasse 12.

Renate fled to England on a Kindertransport in 1939. On 18 April 1939, she left Nuremberg and went to Manchester. Wilhelm and Gertrud were deported to the Izbica Ghetto on 24 March 1942 and murdered there on 10 April 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. 28.

Stolpersteine in the vicinity