Stumbling Stones Via Catalana 3

These memorial stones (Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:
* Samuele Sonnino, born 1908, arrested 16 October 1943, deported to Auschwitz, killed February 1944, Warsaw.

According to testimony to Yad Vashem by a niece Sara: Samuele died "working in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto."

Samuele was the son of Amelia and Mose Marco Sonnino, who lived nearby on Via Arenula 41. They were also arrested and were deported from Rome on the same days as Samuele in the Nazi raid of October 1943 to remove all Jews from Rome. His parents were killed on the day they arrived in Auschwitz

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.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: TracesOfWar.com