Stumbling Stone Wasserstraße 55

This memorial stone (so called Stolperstein or stumbling block) commemorates Leonhart Koopmann, murdered on March 28th 1943.

HIER WOHNTE
LEONHARD KOOPMANN
JG. 1862
DEPORTIERT 1942
THERESIENSTADT
TOT 28.3.1943

The small copper plaques, in the pavement in front of houses of which the (mostly Jewish) residents were murdered by the Nazis, mention the name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death.

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

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & TracesOfWar.nl
• Photos: Peter Schipper