Stumbling Stones Marienplatz 12

These brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), placed on September 12, 2013, commemorate:
* CHAJA ANJA REUSS-GÜNSBURG (born 1886, involuntarily removed to Berlin in 1933, fled to the U.S.S.R., survivor)
* DR. FRIEDRICH REUSS (born 1889, arrested in 1933, banned from working in 1933, involuntarily removed to Berlin in 1933, fled to the U.S.S.R., died on December 15, 1935)
* MARGARETE LISELOTTE REUSS (born 1920, involuntarily removed to Berlin in 1933, fled to the U.S.S.R., survivor)

These Stolpersteine are placed here for a family persecuted in the 1930s for their communist ideas. They fled to the USSR.

"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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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck