Stumbling Stones Obere Hauptstraße 13

These small memorial brass plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* Leopold Wertheimer, born 1870, forced to move 1937 to Cologne, killed himself 16 February 1941.
* Anna Wertheimer née Reichhardt, born 1876, forced to move 1937 to Cologne, deported 1941 to Lodz / Litzmannstadt, murdered 9 May 1942 Chelmno / Kulmhof.

Background

Leopold Wertheimer and his wife Anna were forced to move from Hockenheim to Cologne. He killed himself, probably before she was deported.

Anna was one of eight brothers and sisters. Only one survived the war. Six were murdered in the Shoah; and a brother killed himself in 1940. Her father died before the war; her mother was murdered in Poland.

No other information was found on Leopold Wertheimer or his family.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small 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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