Stumbling stones Schwetzinger Straße 12

Stolpersteine / Stumbling stones commemorate:

* Ludwig Baumgarten, born 1890, "protective custody" 1938 Dachau, deported 1940 to Gurs, interned in Drancy, 1942 to Auschwitz, murdered.
* Rosa Regina Baumgarten née Durlacher, born 1882, deported 1940 to Gurs, interned in Drancy, 1942 Auschwitz murdered.
* Ingeborg Baumgarten, born 1920, deported 1940 to Gurs, interned in Drancy, 1942 Auschwitz murdered 1942.
* Horst Norbert Baumgarten, born 1921, fled 1939 to England, survived.

* Herbert Fleischhacker, born 1907, "protective custody" 1938 Dachau, unwillingingly moved 1942 to Karlsruhe, with help hid / survived.
* Pauline Gertrud Fleischhacker, née Demtröder, born 1909, unwillingingly moved 1942 to Karlsruhe, humiliated / deprived of her rights, with help hid / survived.
* Erna Fleischhacker, born 1902, fled 1939 to England, survived.
* Gerda Gisela Fleischhacker, born 1913, deported 1940 to Gurs, interned Drancy, 1942 to Auschwitz, murdered 1942.

Ludwig Baumgarten, a "self-employed commercial traveller," and Rosa Regina Durlacher married. They had a tobacco shop at this Schwetzinger Straße address. Their daughter Ingeborg Charlotte Baumgarten had the same fate as her parents, although without specific deportation information, we don’t know if they ever saw each other at Gurs, Drancy, or Auschwitz. Son Horst Norbert Baumgarten (b. 1921) fled to England earlier – in 1939 – and survived. He changed his name to Norbert Barrett and at age 92 was living in a Jewish retirement home in Manchester. He lived until 2016.

Herbert Felischhacker survived because friends helped him to hide in Karlsruhe for 3 years, staying in a different house each night. His son, Udo, still remembers the screams when the Gestapo took away his grandparents and two aunts on 22 October 1940. They were taken first to Mannheim, then in cattle cars to Gurs in the Pyrenees. Gerda Fleischhacker, his sister, was then deported in 1942 from Gurs to Auschwitz, where she was murdered. Information on how Pauline Gertrud Fleischhacker and Erna Fleischhacker survived was not seen.

These Stolpersteine were installed in November 2013. The photo of all 8 Stolpersteine in the pavement was taken in 2017 and reflects the change in the pavement itself after the installation.

"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: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Andreas Rockstein
• Stolpersteine in Hockenheim: Personen
• Stolpersteine.eu