Stumbling Stones Bahnhofstraße 16

Second World War (1939-1945)

Germany Nordrhein-Westfalen Bocholt

These memorial stones (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:

* Paul Löwenstein, born 1890, deported 1941, murdered in Riga.
* Anna-Maria Löwenstein née Friedrichs, born 1898, deported 1941 Riga, murdered 1944 in Stutthof.
* Aurelia Weyl, born 1875, deported 1942, Theresienstadt, murdered 29 August 1942.

Paul Löwenstein and Anna-Maria were apparently married. Information on them is scarce. For him, no information was found on his parents, any siblings, or any children.

Anna-Maria is listed as Annemarie in several sources, including Das Bundesarchiv, Yad Vashem and geni.com. She was born in Poland. Information on her parents is missing; one sibling died shortly after birth and information on the other is missing.

Aurelia Weyl’s parents and her husband Salomon all died before the war. Of her 3 siblings alive at the beginning of the war, one died in London in 1940 and another in Jerusalem in 1953. The third, Moses (Moritz) Stern, was deported to Minsk and did not survive. A stolperstein for him is at An der Alster 28 in Hamburg.

The small copper brass plaques are placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each states the victim’s name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death.

Stolpersteine memorials also can be found in many other German cities. There are already many thousands of these plaques and their number is still growing. Almost all Stolpersteine are laid by the German artist himself, Gunter Demnig.

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