Stumbling Stones Woldsenweg 16

These small brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* Victor Werner, born 1880, deported 1941 Lodz, deported again, murdered.
* Olga Werner née Seligmann, born 1887, deported 1941 to Lodz, deported again, murdered.
* Marion Werner, born 1923, deported 1941 to Lodz, deported again, murdered.

Victor Werner was a merchant who co-owned two companies – a machine exporting company, then a coffee roasting plant. He presumably worked at the Keitel Roasting House in Hamburg. Olga Werner was listed as a housewife. The family was Protestant (Lutheran), but in late 1939 the parents had to register as Jews. Of their six children, five were rescued by Kindertransport, while Marion stayed with her parents. She attended the Helene Lange School from 1933 to 1938. On 25 October 1942, Victor, Olga, and Marion Werner were deported to Lodz. Eleven months later, all three were deported to the extermination camp, Chelmno, where they were probably murdered on arrival.

Marion stayed in Germany with her parents, and on 25 October 1941 the three were deported to Litzmannstadt (Lodz). Less than a year later, in September 1942, the three were deported again, to Chelmno, where traces of them disappear.

Another stolperstein for Marion Werner is at the location where she studied, at Bogenstrasse 32 in Hamburg-Harvestehude.

"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."

For more information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine Hamburg.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: Bernd Carstensen (1), Hinnerk11 (2), Hinnerk11 (3)
• Stolpersteine in Hamburg: Victor Werner
• Stolpersteine.eu