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Stumbling Stones Gehrenberg 1

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Hetti Goldwein (born 1894, murdered in Raasiku)
Irmgard Levy (born 1911, murdered in Riga)
Hedwig Hecht (born 1879, murdered in Theresienstadt)
Hermann Hecht (born 1869, murdered in Theresienstadt)
Erich Walther Hoffmann (born 1890, murdered in Theresienstadt)
Margarethe Luise Hoffmann (born 1898, murdered in Theresienstadt)
Max Hoffmann (born 1893, murdered in Theresienstadt)
Werner Hoffmann (born 1899, murdered in Riga)
Hans Ludwig Plaut (born 1922, murdered in Warsaw)
Martha Plaut (born 1886, murdered in Warsaw)
, persecuted or murdered by the Nazis.

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 and villages, 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.

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Source

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

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