Stumbling Stones Frankstraße 12

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Moritz David (born 1884, murdered in Chelmno in May 1942)
Hugo Hermann (born 1890, murdered in Chelmno in September 1942)
Lina Hermann (born 1894, murdered in Lodz on 31-5-1942)
Richard Hermann (born 1935, murdered in Lodz)
Dorothea Simonsohn (born 1894, murdered in Stutthof on 7-1-1945)
Martin Simonsohn (born 1896, faith unknown)
Heinrich Wolff (born 1898, murdered in Stutthof on 2-12-1944)
Johanna Wolff (born 1901, murdered in Riga)

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.

For more information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine in Cologne (in German).

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: TracesOfWar.com