Stumbling Stone Zschopauer Platz 13

This small, brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates a German physician.

Here lived and practiced medicine
* Dr. Else Wolff, born 1891, involuntarily moved, 1936 Leipzig, banned from profession 1938, deported 1942, murdered in Belzyce.

Dr. Else Wolff had a varied career. She studied in Leipzig, then served as an assistant doctor at the University of Marburg ENT clinic. Her dissertation was approved in 1918. What she did next until 1926 was not found.

From 1926 to 1933, Dr. Wolff was a district medical officer in Chemnitz. (One source says she was a Chemnitz government servant who worked as a doctor for the city schools.) She then moved to Leipzig and had a private practice as a homeopathic and naturopathic doctor. From 1937 on she was a pediatrician, but could not work as one. She became a technical assistant for a gynecologist until 1941/42, and she worked also as a housekeeper. After she was forced to live in a Leipzig "Judenhaus," she was deported on 21 May 1942 to Belsec.

No information was found about her family.

"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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