Stumbling Stones Kalchstraße 11

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

* Benno Rosenbaum, born 1883, fled 1941 to Uruguay, killed himself 28 March 1944, Montevideo.
* Martha Rosenbaum née Oppenheimer, born 1895, fled 1941 to Uruguay.

Little information was found about the Rosenbaums. During the Reichspogrom of November 1938, Nazis destroyed the couple’s apartment when they were away. Three years later, they fled to Uruguay. There Benno Rosenbaum took his own life in 1944. Martha Rosenbaum survived.

With the placing of these memorials for the Rosenbaums on 29 December 2019, 75,000 stolpersteine have been installed to remember victims of national socialism.

"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."

See the photo of Gunter Demnig holding the two stolpersteine for the Rosenbaums here.

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