Stumbling Stones Volksgartenstraße 24

These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
Simon Siegfried Cahn(born 1888, murdered in Riga in 1941)
Regina Cahn (born 1895, murdered in Stutthof in 1944)
Erika Cahn (born 1917, escaped to sotland in1938)
Paul Egon Cahn (born 1918, escaped to Kenia in 1938)
Ingeborg Cahn (born 1922, escaped to Australia in 1938)

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 cities, mainly in Germany but also in other European countries, 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.

For more information and pictures, please visit Stolpersteine in Cologne (in German).

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Source

• Text: Johan Tjallingii
• Photos: Johan Tjallingii