Gravestone of Nathan Stern in the Jewish cemetery of Pfaffenhausen nearby Hammelburg Nathan passed away on January 7, 1928 at the age of 63. His wife and widow Rosa Stern took over the business together with her second born daughter Bettina and her son-in-law Julius Mantel. 
Bettina Stern (* 1901) married the merchant Julius Mantel in 1928. He was born in Mellrichstadt. In 1935 Julius Mantel chaired the Jewish Community of Hammelburg. In November 1938 he was arrested and deported to the concentration camp of Dachau. 
On November 10, 1938 terrible things happened in the house of Rosa Stern. In the early morning men of the SA rushed into the house and destroyed the whole furniture, all windows and doors. - It was the terrible pogrom day in Hammelburg. - Photo: Dieter Vogler, Hammelburger Album. On the left you can see the house of Emanuel Stern with destroyed windows. 
In 1939 the Stern Family was expelled by the Nazis from her hometown. Bettina and Julius Mantel left Hammelburg on January 13,1939. Rosa Stern and her first born daughter Frieda Neuberger went away on January 28, 1939. Reference: Stadtarchiv Hammelburg, Karl Stöckner Victims of Holocaust - The Stern Famliy - Hammelburg The two young sons of Frieda - Norbert Neuberger and Ernst Stefan Neuberger - remained in Germany with her grandmother Rosa Stern. The two boys visited a Jewish school and boarding home in Fürth. Together with her grandmother they were deported on May 1942 to Belzec and Sobibor. Their father - Heinz Neuberger - was murdered in 1937 by the Gestapo Mannheim. Norbert Neuberger
Ernst Stefan Neuberger
Rosa Stern 
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