Stumbling Stones Markt 21

These brass plaques (Stolpersteine or tripstones), laid on 16-05-2019, commemorate:
MORITZ SOMMER (born 1885, deported 1942 to Minsk, murdered in Maly Trostinec)
LINA SOMMER-HERZ (born 1890, deported 1942 to Minsk, murdered in Maly Trostinec)
KURT SUMMER (born 1922, deported 1942 to Minsk, murdered in Maly Trostinec)

These Stolpersteine are here for Jewish war victims, persecuted, deported and/or murdered in World War II.

Moritz Sommer was a cattle trader and lived with his wife Lina and son Kurt in Zülpich's market square. Their house was declared a ‘Jews’ house’ in 1941. The Sommers therefore had to take in Jews who had previously lost their houses and flats due to ‘arisation’. This is what the Nazi authorities called the forced expropriation of Jewish property in favour of non-Jews.
On 20 July 1942, Moritz Sommer, along with his wife and son, was deported to Minsk and murdered four days later in the Maly Trostinez death camp.

‘Stolpersteine’ is an art project in Europe by Gunter Demnig commemorating victims of National Socialism (Nazism).
Stolpersteine (trip stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of a residence of (mostly Jewish) victims of the Nazis. Each plaque bears the victim's name, date of birth and their fate. In this way, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He quotes the Talmud: ‘A person is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten.’

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