Stumbling Stones Ostertorplatz 14

These memorial stones (Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks) commemorate:
* David Isaac Wolff, born 1889, fled 1939 to Holland, interned at Westerbork, deported 1943, Auschwitz, murdered 19 February 1943.
* Regina Wolff née Gumpert, born1891, fled 1939 to Holland, interned at Westerbork, deported 1943, Auschwitz, murdered 19 February 1943.
* Kurt David Wolff, born 1921, fled 1937 to Holland, interned at Westerbork, deported 1943, Auschwitz, murdered 30 November 1943.

About 1920, the brothers David, Jakob and Siegfried Wolff founded a textile manufaturing business on Ostertorplatz 14. The business was on the ground floor; living quarters were above. The business was destroyed during Pogromnacht in November 1938. Two months later, David Wolff fled with his wife and son to Henglo in the Netherlands. They lived there with Regina’s sister, Frieda Sommerfeld née Gumpert and her husband Hermann Sommerfeld. From there they were taken in October 1942 to Westerbork internment camp. All three were then deported in January 1943 to Auschwitz. David Isaac Wolff and Regina Gumpert were killed there on the same day and their son Kurt worked there until he was killed 9 months later.

Another stolperstein for Regina Wolff née Gumpert together with one for her sister Frieda Sommerfeld née Gumpert is at Wüllener Straße 11 in Ahaus, Germany.

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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