Stumbling Stones Obere Karolinenstrasse 4a

Above the Stolpersteine lies a brass plaque:
“December 16, 1942
Himmler order: sog. Auschwitz decree: deportation of Sinti and Roma to Auschwitz.
A death sentence for many.
The Sinti Seeger family lived in Bamberg.”

The brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), laid on October 30, 2021, commemorate this family:
* JOHNNY SEEGER (born 1940, deported to Auschwitz in 1943, murdered on April 22, 1943)
* LONI SEEGER (born 1936, deported to Auschwitz in 1943, murdered)
* ASLAN SEEGER (born 1925, deported to Auschwitz in 1943, to Buchenwald in 1944, liberated from Dora-Sangershausen)
* FRIEDEL SEEGER (born 1926, deported to Auschwitz in 1943, to Buchenwald in 1944, liberated from Dora-Sangershausen)
* HANS SEEGER (born 1931, deported to Auschwitz in 1943, to Buchenwald in 1944, to Flossenbürg in 1945, liberated during transport to Dachau)
* PAUL SEEGER (born 1902, deported to Auschwitz in 1943, in the resistance, on May 16, 1944, uprising in the Gypsy camp, in Buchenwald in 1944, to Flossenbürg in 1945, liberated during transport to Dachau)
* KLARA-MIA SEEGER-EMLER (born 1902, deported to Auschwitz (in 1943, murdered)
* ERWIN SEEGER (born 1927, deported to Auschwitz in 1943, to Buchenwald in 1944, liberated from Dora-Sangershausen)

These Stolpersteine are located here for Sinti who were persecuted and deported. Two of them were murdered, six were liberated during 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 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