Stumbling Stones Hülsstraße 12

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate
* Rudolf Boldes, born 1884, deported 1942, murdered in a concentration camp.
* Paula Boldes, née Neugarten, born 1887, deported 1942, murdered in a concentration camp.

These stolpersteine were sponsored by Gymnasium im Loekamp, Marl.

According to another source, both Rudolf and Paula Boldes were murdered in Riga. They had 5 children, all of whom survived the Holocaust. Only one returned to Marl. Their 3 sons left Germany: Herbert (born 1912) went to England; Günther (born 1915) went to Palestine/Israel; and Berthold (born 1923) went to Denmark, from where he was deported in 1943 to Theresienstadt; he survived and returned to Denmark where he died in 2011. Of their 2 daughters, Ruth (born 1916) went to Palestine/Israel in 1939 and Edith (born 1911) was freed in 1945 from the Elben women’s forced labor camp and returned to Marl, where she died in 1997.

The small brass 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 & Anne Palmer
• Photos: Jens-Erik Janke
• http://www.vhsmarl-schulabschluesse.org/judaica-marl/