This is a group of three stumbling stones located at St. Annen-Straße 12 where the Emmering family lived and had their shop.
Eva Emmering was born in Lübeck on 27 October 1909, the youngest of Benjamin and Sara Emmering’s three children. Unlike her older sister Elena, who had been born in the Netherlands, Eva’s earliest life was directly tied to Lübeck and he attended St. Marien Girls’ Primary School from Easter 1916 until 1922, then St. Jürgen Girls’ Middle School, and took religious classes in the synagogue diagonally opposite her family’s home.
Eva became a sales clerk, while her brother Aron Adolf also entered commercial work and later ran his own business. After their father Benjamin died in 1932, Eva and Elena returned from Hattingen to Lübeck to support their mother, Sara, whose illness led to her admission to Strecknitz Mental Hospital. In 1933, Eva fled to the Netherlands with Elena, and by 1941 the two sisters were living in Amsterdam at Govert Flinckstraat 98. After what must have been a hugely challenging few years, Eva and Elena must have felt some safety in Amsterdam away from the Nazi horrors. Unfortunately, the invasion of the Netherlands put them in danger once again.
Eva was interned at Westerbork and deported to Auschwitz, where she was murdered on 29 August 1942. She was 33. The death certificates for both sisters recorded Auschwitz I, and the doctor who signed them was Johann Paul Kremer (1883-1965), notorious for his involvement in experiments on prisoners. I don’t think I want to know what happened there, this family suffered terribly over the years as it was. Kremer was sentenced to death for his war crimes, but it was commuted to a prison sentence before he was released.