Stumbling Stones Kaiserstraße 136

These small memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:
* Paul Kahn, born 1872, imprisoned 1942 Sachsenhausen, murdered 27 February 1942.
* Klara Kahn, born 1907, fled to the USA.

Paul Kahn's wife, Paula Nussbaum, died in Sankt Ingbert in 1930. Their three adult children -- Robert, Klara [above], and Helene -- all escaped from Germany to Israel and the USA. Two of Paul’s siblings were murdered in 1944 -- one at age 64 in Auschwitz and one at age 77 in Theresienstadt.

"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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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: Andreas Rockstein
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
• Geni.com
• Stolpersteine.eu