Stumbling Stones Amalienstrasse 18

These brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), placed on May 2, 2018, commemorate:
* EMANUEL WIESENFELDER (b. 1874, forced to close his shop, disgraced and humiliated, died as a result of surgery on April 3, 1941)
* BERTA WIESENFELDER-SPÄTH (b. 1882, deported to Riga in 1941, murdered)
* HELENE WIESENFELDER (b. 1907, fled to the USA in 1938)
* KARL WIESENFELDER (b. 1912, fled to Palestine in 1935)
* ILSE WIESENFELDER (b. 1916, fled to the USA in 1938)

These Stolpersteine lie here for a Jewish family, one of whom War victims, persecuted, deported, and murdered in World War II. The children fled abroad in the 1930s.

"Stolpersteine” is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the sidewalk in front of the last voluntary residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the victim’s, date of birth, and fate. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: “A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten.”

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