Memorial Signs for Sabine and Leopold Schwager,
Klenzestraße 26

Sabine and Leopold Schwager lived directly on Gärtnerplatz (today Klenzestraße 26). They had three children: a daughter, Charlotte, who died of pneumonia at the age of two, and two sons, Erwin and Karl. During the First World War, Leopold Schwager fought in the German army, while Sabine Schwager continued to run the family business together with the employees.

After the National Socialists came to power, the sons emigrated to Palestine and the USA. On 9 November 1938, Leopold Schwager was arrested and held prisoner for a month in the Dachau concentration camp. After his release, the Schwagers decided with a heavy heart to also seek emigration and put themselves on the waiting list for US visas at the American Consulate. In February 1941, their number was finally drawn.

Their son Erwin desperately tried to bring his parents to the United States. But in October 1941, the Nazi regime banned Jews in Germany from emigrating. Sabine and Leopold Schwager were deported to Kaunas in Lithuania in November 1941 and shot there five days after their arrival.