Stumbling Stones Sittarder Straße 57

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Johanna Gottschalk-Baum
Rudolf Sally Gottschalk
Abraham Gottschalk

Ferdinand Gottschalk and Johanna, born Baum, lived with their son Rudolf Sally, born in 1926, and their uncle, Abraham G., in the house he inherited. The couple and their son fled to Valkenburg, the Netherlands in 1937. With the first transport from Westerbork they were deported to Cosel in 1942, father and son were murdered there on March 31, 1944, the mother on September 7, 1942 in Auschwitz. Johanna was a niece of Leo Baum. Uncle Abraham Gottschalk then moved to Aachen in 1938, was deported on 25 September 1942 with transport VII/244 to Theresienstadt, on 29 September to Treblinka and murdered there.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: TracesOfWar.com
• https://www.alg-gk.de/index.php/initative-erinnern/stolpersteine/635-stolpersteine-03-06-2014