Stumbling Stone Letzenbergstraße 5

This small brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:

* Therese Hess, born 1848, deported 1940 Gurs, dead 8 November1940.

Background

Therese Kaufmann, the daughter of a master baker, married Samuel Simon Hess in April 1874. They had 7 children. Applications after the war for reparations implied that Samuel and Therese Hess had lived well. But he died in Malsch in May 1932. Because of the Nazi rulings, by January 1939, neither Therese nor her children had any income, and she had to sell the house. On 22 October 1940, she and her son and daughter-in-law plus all the other Jews remaining in Malsch were deported to Gurs. She died there two weeks later -- her death is considered a murder.

"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 victim’s with the name, year 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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