Stumbling Stones Rettigstraße 4

These brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), placed on November 8, 2013, commemorate:
* ADOLF DEUTSCH (born 1879, arrested in resistance in 1935, Dachau, and from there to Buchenwald in 1938, fled to Shanghai in 1939, survivor)
* MINA DEUTSCH (born Hammel 1879, deported to Gurs in 1940, and then to Auschwitz in 1942, where she was murdered on August 14, 1942)
* IRENE DEUTSCH (born 1910, deported to Gurs in 1940, and then to Auschwitz in 1942, where she was murdered on August 14, 1942)
* MELANIE SCHAALMANN (born Roos 1885, deported to Gurs in 1940, and then to Auschwitz, where people were murdered on August 12, 1942.

These Stolpersteine lie here in memory of resistance fighters persecuted, deported, and/or murdered during World War II.

"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 sidewalk in front of the last voluntary residence of (usually Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque is provided with the victim’s, date of birth, and fate. 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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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Rik De Coninck