Stumbling Stones Colombistraße 21

These small brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:
* Dr. Gottfried Maier-Kraemer, born 1877, deported 1938, Dachau / Gurs, dead 1 February 1942 in Récébédou.
* Julie Maier née Kraemer, born 1885, deported 1940, Gurs, dead 30 December 1942 in Noé.

Gottfried Maier was born in Freiburg. He married Julie Kraemer and added her maiden name to his, a common practice at the time. Dr. Gottfried Maier-Kraemer was a neurologist and medical advisor who lived for 30 years on the second floor at this address. His clinic was either at this same number or at Colombistraße 27. He was forced by the Freiburg rulers to give up his medical practice in 1938 and was arrested on 11 November of that year and sent to Dachau. After his release, he and other Freiburg Jews were forced to walk to Gurs. He was then further deported to a sub-camp at Récébédou, where he was killed.

"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 with the victim’s name, date 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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