Stumbling Stones Schalker Straße 45

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Salomon Tepper (born 1893, murdered in Izbica)
Sara Tepper (born 1898, murdered in Riga in November 1943)
Anna Tepper (born 1923, murdered in Sobibor on 4-6-1943)
Dora Tepper (born 1924, murdered in Auschwitz on 15-12-1942)
Max Tepper (born 1926, survived in The Netherlands)

The small brass plaques, in the pavement in front of houses of which the (mostly Jewish) residents were persecuted or 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 Gelsenkirchen (in German).

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Source

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