Jenny Löb, born Johanna Löb in Mutterstadt in 1878, married Bernhard Löb in 1901. Together with Bernhard’s unmarried brother Adolf, they ran a hardware shop at Neustadter Straße 2, where they also lived from 1936. Before that, the family had lived at Speyerer Straße 119, where their children Marie and Adolf Jakob were probably born. The family was well respected and prosperous in the village. In October 1940 Bernhard and Jenny were deported with the other Jewish citizens of Mutterstadt to Gurs. Both later applied for release in order to go to Purita Loeb in Rodez. Bernhard was transferred to Les Milles and then to Nexon, where he died on 30 December 1942. Jenny was sent to the Hotel Bompard emigrant camp in Marseille, later to Nexon and Masseube, where she was liberated in August 1944. In 1947 she emigrated to the United States and died in New York in 1953. Adolf Löb was also liberated from Masseube, emigrated to the USA and died in New York in 1970.
Adolf Löb, born in Mutterstadt on 25 November 1872, was a merchant who ran the ironmongery A. & B. Löb in Neustadter Straße together with his younger brother Bernhard, known as “Benni.” He was unmarried and belonged to the Iron Front, which made him a target of the rising Nazis. In 1932 the local NSDAP called for a boycott of the Jewish Löb hardware shop, and in February 1938 Adolf and Bernhard were forced to close the business. During the November pogrom, their home at Neustadter Straße 2 was violently devastated by SS men and locals, while the family was held at the town hall. In October 1940 Adolf was deported to Gurs. He passed through several camps, including Les Milles, Rivesaltes and Masseube, where he was liberated in 1944. In 1947 he emigrated to the United States, became an American citizen in 1953 and died in New York in 1970.
