Stumbling stone for Henny Baum, née Wolff, Otto Baum, Alice Baum, Judis Baum

Otto Baum, born on March 26, 1879 in Schornsheim, Hesse, was the son of Joseph and Babette Baum. Baum was a merchant and lived with his family in Strasbourg, from 1920 in Offenbach. Initially at Goethestrasse 86 and later at Bernardstrasse 57.
Baum initially worked as a fabric and clothing merchant and later as a railroad employee in Offenbach.Otto Baum was taken into protective custody in the Dachau concentration camp from November 16 to December 28, 1938.

His wife Henny Baum, née Wolff, born on July 9, 1887 in Altona, Hamburg, was the daughter of Waldemar and Emma Wolff.

Otto and Henny Baum had four children. The eldest child was son Erwin, born on November 05, 1909, the second was daughter Erna. She was born on January 03, 1911 in Strasbourg. Their third child was Alice, born on December 29, 1913, also in Strasbourg, and their fourth child, Anna, only lived for four days. She was born on January 7, 1921 and died on January 11, 1921 in Offenbach.

Daughter Alice gave birth to her daughter Judis Baum on April 11, 1939. She had worked as a seamstress and was single. Between 1932 and 1939, she moved back and forth between Frankfurt and Offenbach ten times.

According to the Offenbach registration cards, Alice and probably also Judis Baum (there is no information on this) were deported to Auschwitz on October 1, 1940, followed by her parents on August 1, 1941. The central deportation list from Darmstadt lists September 30, 1942 as the deportation date for the entire Baum family. All four were murdered in Auschwitz in 1942.

Only Erna Baum survived the Nazi era. Her brother Erwin died in Frankfurt in 1934.

The Stumbling Stone was laid on February 14, 2009.