Stumbling Stones Marktstraße 20

These brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:
* JAKOB ABRAHAM COHEN (born 1877, fled 1937 Holland, interned Westerbork, deported 1943 Sobibor, murdered 23-4-1943)
* ABRAHAM JAKOB COHEN (born 1910, fled 1936 Holland, Italy, Ecuador)
* MOSES JAKOB COHEN (born 1911, fled Holland in 1933, interned in Westerbork, deported to Sobibor in 1943, murdered on 16-4-1943)
* WOLFF WILHELM COHEN (born 1915, fled to Australia)
* JOSEF COHEN (born 1917, arrested 1939 for “racial defilement”, imprisoned in Hamburg-Stadt, sentenced to death 29-04-1941, executed 26-06-1941, Holstenglacis 3)

* WOLFF JAKOB WOLFF (born 1855, forcibly relocated 1940 Emden, discouraged/disenfranchised, died 1-6-1941)
* SARA JAKOB WOLFF (born 1861, forcibly relocated in 1940 from Emden, discouraged/disenfranchised, died 3-7-1940)

These Stolpersteine lie here for Jewish war victims, persecuted, deported and/or murdered in World War II.

"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 a known 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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