Memorial Signs for the Maier family and Emma and Jakob Springer,
Uhlandstraße 4

23.05.2023 10:30 a.m.

Veranstaltung

After a the memorial service for twelve members of the Maier, Reis, Springer and Weiss families was held in the Jewish community centre on 22 May 2023 and the Memorial Signs for seven family members were placed at their former places of residence, five more Memorial Signs for members of the Maier and Springer families were placed on 23 May 2023.

Memorial Signs for Jakob, Hermine, and Alfred Jakob Maier

Uhlandstraße 4

The merchant Jakob Maier married Ida Adler and they had a son: Alfred Jakob Maier. Two years after the early death of his first wife, Jakob Maier married Hermine - Mina - Kleemann, who was also widowed. Hermine moved in with him and his son at Uhlandstraße 4.

In 1938, the couple had to leave their home and eventually move into the so-called Judenhaus at Landwehrstraße 44, before the Gestapo crammed them into the barrack camp of the Milbertshofen Jewish settlement from1942. From there they were deported to the Piaski ghetto. Exactly how and where Jakob and Hermine Maier died is unknown.

Alfred Jakob Maier lived with his father and stepmother Hermine Maier at Uhlandstraße 4 before moving to Marseille as a young merchant in 1934. He was arrested and interned while trying to enter Switzerland with French papers. In September 1942, Alfred Jakob Maier was deported from the Drancy camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was murdered shortly after his arrival.

Commemorative event for Hermine, Jakob, and Alfred Jakob Maier

Dr. Barbara Turczynski-Hartje, District Committee Ludwigvorstadt-Isarvorstadt

A relative speaks at the commemoration

A relative of Hermine, Jakob, and Alfred Jakob Maier

The installation of the Memorial Signs for the Maier family

Relatives in front of the Memorial Signs for the Maier family

The house at Uhlandstraße 4

Memorial Signs for Emma and Jakob Springer

Emma and Jakob Springer married and had a daughter, Margarethe Springer. Emma and Jakob Springer left their condominium at Franz-Joseph-Straße 15 in 1933 and were forced to move many times before the Gestapo moved the couple into a so-called 'Judenhaus' at Richard-Wagner-Straße 11 in 1939.

Jakob Springer died there in 1941 and Emma Springer was deported by the Gestapo to the Piaski ghetto. It is still not known where and how she was murdered.

Their daughter Margarethe had been able to emigrate to Palestine in 1933.