Stumbling Stones Rudolfsplatz 3

Stumbling Stones (Stolpersteine) to remember nine persons who were all held in the police jail here on Rudolfsplatz and and who were deported from here to various locations. None survived.

Placing the stolpersteine in front of the jail site is unusual: the location preferred by the artist (see below) is at the address where the victim last lived voluntarily.

Police jail 1938-1945. Here were imprisoned and deported:

* Goffredo Bonciani, born 1922, deported 28 September 1944, Flossenbürg, Lengenfeld, murdered 26 February 1945.
* Otto Weissberger, born 1872, deported 21 May 1943 Auschwitz, murdered 19 June 1943.
* Vasco Poggesi, born 1922, deported 28 September 1944 Flossenbürg, 23 October 1944 Mauthausen, Gusen, murdered 4 February 1945.
* Julius Faist, born 1889, deported 22 September 1944, Mauthausen, Gusen, murdered 30 November 1944.
* Margarethe Schallmoser, born 1923, deported 6 February 1943, Ravensbrück, murdered 22 May 1944.
* Rafael Gomez-Rodriguez, born 1918, deported 11 September 1941, Mauthausen, Gusen, murdered 01 February 1942.
* Katharina Pfriemer née Klimitsch, born 1902, deported 28 August 1943, Ravensbrück, murdered 1944.
* Bozo Mikulandra, born 1925, deported 11 October 1943 Dachau, 31 October 1943 Buchenwald, murdered 7 February 1945.
* Wladimir Subota, born 1924, deported 8 August 1942 Dachau, murdered 12 February 1945.

The reasons for their arrests and murders were not always stated clearly but included resistance, homosexuality, and Jewish "race".

"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 Mark Shorack (1) & @1971marcus, Wikimedia Commons (2)
• Stolpersteine Salzburg: Victim File
• Stolpersteine.eu