Stumbling Stones Rosenaustraße 10

Stolpersteine / Stumbling Stones for:

* Fora Gaertner, born 1870, deported 1942 Theresienstadt, murdered 21 April 1943.
* Emma Gaertner, born 1872, deported 1942 Theresienstadt, murdered 24 September 1942.

Information from various sources about sisters Fora and Emma Gaertner is not consistent, including the name of Fora Gaertner, which even relatives recorded as Flora. The day of death for Fora/Flora is not consistent across sources although all agree on April 1943.

Yad Vashem records show that on 10 September 1942 both women were deported from Nürnberg to Theresienstadt. Flora Gaertner survived there until April 1943, but Emma Gaertner was deported onward on 29 September to the extermination camp at Treblinka, with the date of her death unknown.

The house they lived in at this address was bombed and destroyed. The current building was built in the 1950s.

"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: John Shorack
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
• Nordbayern: Acht neue Stolpersteine…
• Stolpersteine.eu