Two Jewish widows – persecuted by the Nazis

In the 19^th century many Jewish townspeople lived in what is now the Hornschuchallee. House number 4 was under Jewish ownership for a long time and later belonged to the master wainwright Johann Kotz. He had married the Jewish widow Sophie Brückner, née Sternberg. During the National Socialist regime the house was occupied by two Jewish widows who did not remain untouched by the Nazi terror. The widow Rosa Tiesler was deported from this address in 1942. In 1944 the 80-year-old widow Sophie Kotz was transported to Theresienstadt. This marked the end of Jewish life in Forchheim. After the Second World War, for short periods of time, individual survivors of the Holocaust were resident in the town.