Blandina and Richard Loeb were siblings, born in Mutterstadt in 1878 and 1874. With their parents Ludwig Loeb IV and Johanna Weil, they lived at Untere Kirchstraße 2. Richard later married Louise Rothschild in Stuttgart; their daughter Leonore was born in 1911. He became a partner in Loeb & Wertheimer, a large distillery and liqueur factory in Stuttgart. In 1936 Richard, Louise, Leonore and Blandina fled to Amsterdam. On 3 December 1942 Richard, Louise and Blandina were deported to Westerbork. Blandina was soon sent to Auschwitz, where she died on 15 December 1942. Richard and Louise were later taken to Bergen-Belsen. Richard was murdered there on 30 June 1944. Louise survived the “Lost Train” from Bergen-Belsen but died in a hospital in Riesa in June 1945. Leonore later emigrated to New York, where she died in 1974.
