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Stumbling Herzogstraße 9

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Albert Rose (born 1857) humiliated and wronged, died on 02.04.1939 in the Israeli asylum for sick and weak elderly people in Cologne.
Walter Rose (boren 1901) Involuntarily left Berlin in 1936, deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and murdered there.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project in Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism).
The small copper plaques, in the pavement in front of houses of which the (mostly Jewish) residents were murdered by the Nazis, mention the name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death.
In many other cities, mainly in Germany but also in other European countries, the memorials also can be found. There are already many thousands of these plaques and their number is still counting. Almost all Stolpersteine are laid by the German artist himself, Gunter Demnig.

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Source

  • Text: TOW / Peter Schipper
  • Photos: Peter Schipper