Stumbling Stones Luitpoldstraße 4

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

* Benno Kohn, born 1872, deported 1941, Riga, murdered.
* Luise Kohn née Freitag, born 1880, deported 1941, Riga, murdered.

Benno Kohn, a merchant, and Luise Freitag married. They had two daughters. Maria showed up in a 1940 New York City census. No other information was found about the lives of Benno and Luise Kohn before their deportation on 29 November 1941. Their transport, Da 32, took them and over 1,000 others in overcrowded, unheated railway cars from Nürnberg, arriving 3 days later at the Riga railway station, from where they were forced to walk to the Jungfernhof forced labor camp. Only 25 Jews from this transport survived the war. Benno and Maria Kahn were not among them.

Daughter Anna Rosa Kahn was probably deported with her parents to Camp Junfernhof, but she survived the camp and later emigrated to the US. Both of the Kahn daughters died in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

"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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