Fritz Wurzinger

Fritz Wurzinger’s life connects Ansbach, Nuremberg, Rückersdorf, the textile trade, and Jewish persecution. He marries Jenny Ross in Nuremberg. Through Jenny’s family, Fritz joins the textile business and works with his brother-in-law Siegbert Ross. Their sons are Stephan and Alfred. After the First World War, Fritz builds a house in Rückersdorf, northeast of Nuremberg. Boycotts force his Nuremberg textile shop to close. Pressure then drives the Wurzingers from their Rückersdorf home into rented rooms in Nuremberg. They first live on Mittlere Pirckheimerstraße in Nuremberg. Authorities later force them into a Jewish house on Bauerngasse. Fritz and Jenny are deported through Theresienstadt to Treblinka, where they are murdered. Stephan and Alfred escape to the United States with their wives. Stolpersteine in Nuremberg commemorate the Wurzinger family and others persecuted during the Holocaust. The name Fritz Wurzinger therefore marks a personal history across homes, businesses, and remembered streets.