Emma Saphir Götz
Emma Saphir Götz is remembered in Meran, Italy, through a brass Stolperstein set into the pavement. The memorial stands within a city shaped by Jewish family life, persecution, and remembrance.
Born in Velké Meziříčí in 1869, she married Moritz Götz in Vienna in 1896. Their family later settled in Meran, where Moritz traded in food, poultry, and vegetables. From 1911, Villa Götz became their home, after earlier addresses on Meinhardstraße and Freiheitsstraße. The couple raised Berta, Käthe, Rudolf, Hilda, and Gualtiero Walter while building a life in the local community. Nazi persecution destroyed that life: German authorities arrested them in Meran during September 1943 and held them in the basement of Casa del Balilla. Emma was deported to the Reichenau concentration camp near Innsbruck, where she died in February 1944, aged seventy-four.
Her brass memorial keeps that history at street level. Local schools and the Jewish community helped bring Stolpersteine to Meran in 2012, placing remembrance beside ordinary daily paths.
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