Stumbling Stones Choriner Strasse 81

Stumbling Stones / Stolpersteine commemorate:

* Chaim Singer, born 1897, murdered 1943, in occupied Poland.
* Chaja Singer née Schneider, born 1898, murdered 1943, in occupied Poland.
* Stefanie Singer, born 1926, murdered 1943, in occupied Poland.
* Edwin Singer, born 1924, Kindertransport 1939, England.
* Malka Schneider née Bienenstock, born 1867, murdered 1943, in occupied Poland.
* Manes Schneider, born 1901, deported 29 Novemer 1942, murdered in Auschwitz.

Chaja Schneider, her mother Malka Schneider, her brother Manes Schneider, her father Salomon Schneider, and 2 sisters moved from Poland to Berlin in 1912. Although they all spoke German even in Poland, their application for citizenship was denied. Eastern Jews were not welcome in Berlin. The two sisters escaped to England. When Salomon died in 1934, his wife Malka moved to Choriner Strasse 81 to live with her daughter and son-in-law, Chaja and Chaim Singer, and their two children Edwin and Stefanie. In 1939, as the situation became more difficult, Edwin, then age 14, was put on a Kindertransport to England, where his aunts lived. His 12-year-old sister, Stefanie, was left behind for reasons unknown.

In the summer of 1942, the remaining family was deported back to Poland. Malka Schneider’s only living son – Manes – was deported to Auschwitz in the fall of 1942. The rest of the family was murdered the next year in or near Skawina in Poland.

Edwin completed basic military training in England and returned to Berlin in 1946 to work as a member of the Allies’ translation staff. He later returned to live in England until his death in 1992.

"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: Thom Quine
• Stolpersteine in Berlin: Chaim Singer
• Stolpersteine.eu