Stumbling Stones Würzburger Straße 5

These brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones), placed on July 25, 2015, and May 19, 2023, commemorate:
* SIEGFRIED GERST (born 1875, deported 1942 to the Izbica transit ghetto, murdered)
* BRUNO GERST (born 1878, arrested 1935, fled to Holland 1938, interned in Westerbork in 1943, deported to Auschwitz, murdered February 12, 1943)
* MORITZ GERST (born 1881, deported in 1941 to Riga-Jungfernhof, murdered)
* BERTA SCHÖNFELD-KLEIN (born 1900, deported 1942 to Izbica, fate unknown)
* SALLY SCHIE SCHÖNFELD (born 1889, deported 1942 to Izbica, fate unknown)
* HERMINE KLEIN (born 1920, deported 1942 to Izbica, fate unknown)

These Stolpersteine lie here for Jewish war victims, persecuted, deported, and 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: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck