Stumbling Stone Heidhorst Bushaltestelle Boberg

This brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone), placed in November 2024, commemorates:

* NINA WASILENKO, born 14 March1945, mother in forced labor, agriculture, dead 2 April 1945.

Nina Wasilenko’s unmarried mother, Wera Wasilenko, was born in 1925 in Ukraine. She was kidnapped and forced to work as an agricultural laborer for a farmer, Ernst Eggers, at Adolf Hitler Straße 312 (today Riehlstraße). On 12 April 1944 she was admitted to a Hamburg women’s clinic for an “interruptio” (abortion). She returned to her forced farm labor the following week. Seven months later, she returned to the clinic for an “interruptio” but was discharged the next day. Four months later, on 14 March 1945. Wera Wasilenko gave birth to a daughter, Nina. Mother and infant returned to Adolf Hitler Strasse 132 the following week. Nutrition and living conditions there were poor. Nina did not survive even three weeks: she died there on 2 April 1945. The cause of her death in the register was Lebensschwache (weakness).

“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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Source

• Text: Anne Palmer
• Photos: Bernd Carstensen
• Stolpersteine in Hamburg: Heidhorst
  
• Biografien-Databank: NS-Dabeigewesene – Ernst Eggers
  
• Stolpersteine.eu