Stumbling Stones Hochallee 75

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Betty Kurzynski (born 1875, suicide on 4-12-1941)
Olga Beer (born 1892, murdered in Lodz on 20-4-1942)
Dr. Hermann Gerson (born 1896, murdered in Theresienstadt on 22-6-1944)
Dr. Ernst Kaufmann (born 1880, murdered in Auschwitz)
Käthe Kaufmann (born 1886, murdered in Theresienstadt on 1-8-1943)

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 Hamburg.

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Source

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