Ida Schaye

Ida Schaye (1871-1942)

Persecuted as "Jewish"

Stumbling stone inscription:

LIVED/WORKED HERE
IDA SCHAYE
GEB. LANGSTEIN
YG. 1871
DEPORTED 1942
THERESIENSTADT
MURDERED 24.12.1942

Ida Schaye, née Langstein, was born on 4 January 1871 in Soborten (now Czech Republic). Her family moved to Dresden, where her father worked as an insurance inspector. At the beginning of 1891, she married the merchant Moritz Schaye, who later ran a beer and wine bar in Leubnitz-Neuostra. The marriage produced three children: Walter, Eva and Wilhelm.

After Moritz Schaye emigrated to the USA in 1912, Ida Schaye had to fend for herself. She moved to Dresdner Straße 6 in Niederlößnitz and took over a colonial goods shop in a side building of the "Goldene Weintraube" inn. She was still living and working there in 1933 when the National Socialists came to power.

As a Jew, Ida Schaye was increasingly subjected to harassment. In 1935, Rudolf Körtel, an NSDAP member and owner of the "Goldene Weintraube", tried to evict her through the courts. After this initially failed, he used remodelling work and hygienic pretexts to finally force her out of her shop and flat. At the same time, the Nazi propaganda paper "Der Freiheitskampf" (The Freedom Struggle) publicly agitated against her.

Ida Schaye had to give up her business and moved first to Kötzschenbrodaer Straße 159, later to Dresden to Zeughausstraße 1 and then to Güntzstraße 24, both so-called "Jews' houses". On 7/8 September 1942, she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where she died on 24 December 1942.

Text D. Ristau