Stumbling Stone Kannengießergasse 6

This small, brass, memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:

* Kunigunde Klein, born 1884, arrested 1940, Ravensbrück, murdered.

Kunigunde Klein, a Sinti, was married, and the mother of several children. She was a trader and contributed to the the family finances. After 1933, Nazis increased persecution of the "gypsies." By 1939, they were forbidden to move outside their residences. On 17 August 1940, Kunigunde Klein was taken to Ravensbrück as a detainee. Her criminal record included vagrancy, assault, and begging. She did not survive. The date of her death is not known.

"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 pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth, and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. 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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