Stumbling stone for Friederike and Robert Boley

Robert Boley lived with his wife Friederike at Bahnhofstraße 20.

She was born on August 25, 1890 as the daughter of Wilhelm and Selma Neuhaus, née Simons, also in Offenbach.

Robert was born on June 9, 1884 in Offenbach and was one of five children of the Jewish couple Jakob and Amalie Boley, née Reinhardt. His siblings were Selma (born 18.07.1877), Albert (23.11.1878), Julius (19.03.1882) and Jenny (28.05.1888). Together with his brothers, Robert ran a family business for the manufacture and sale of leather goods at Domstrasse 79 from 1923. According to the trade register, the company was deregistered in 1932. Robert Boley then worked as a sales representative until 1938.

On November 9 and 10, 1938, the pogroms terrified the Jewish population. In Offenbach, too, the synagogue in Goethestrasse was set on fire, many Jewish businesses were damaged and looted, homes were searched and numerous people were beaten up and arrested.

Quite a few Jewish people tried to take their own lives in the period that followed, including Friederike and Robert Boley. On Sunday, November 13, 1938, the couple, Antonie Grosch and their daughter-in-law Elisabeth poisoned themselves with gas in the first floor apartment at Bahnhofstrasse 20.

The next morning, the milkman Adam Theobald Jakoby triggered an explosion by ringing the doorbell. Falling pieces of wall killed him in the gateway, the other residents of the house were rescued by the fire department. The neighboring houses were also damaged and injured. Just two days later, the fire department demolished the house, which had become uninhabitable. Jews from Offenbach were called in to help with the clearing work.

The sponsors of the Stolpersteine for Friederike and Robert Boley are the parish of St. Paul and the Green Party parliamentary group in Offenbach

Laid on October 21, 2006.